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The Night of Freedom

Topical political long poem against slavery, written by William Wallace Hebbard (Boston: Samuel Chism, 1857). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

            William Wallace Hebbard remains an unknown poet.  There is no biographical information currently available concerning Hebbard.  The two texts by this author mentioned on the title page of The Night of Freedom do not appear in bibliographic indexes.  The only other known text by Hebbard is Will It Come? A Story of Instinct, Intuition, Metaphysics, Love and Worship (Hyde Park, NY: Hildreth and Getchell, 1870).  The publisher, Samuel Chism, operated presses in Boston, Worcester, and Newton, Massachusetts from the 1840s-1860s, publishing primarily religious and educational texts.

- Joe Lockard
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