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In September 2008 the Project inaugurated a new Legacies collection to explore the continuing influence of abolitionist ideas and culture in US society from the Civil War to the early twentieth century.  The Legacies collection, which features original texts, historical introductions, and video, is co-edited by Holly Kent, Joe Lockard, and Zoe Trodd.
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“Hymn 24. 7s.” [“Daughters of the Pilgrim Sires”]

by Antislavery Webmaster — last modified 2008-08-02 12:41 2006 by the Antislavery Literature Project

This originally appeared in Chapman’s Songs of the Free (154-157) as “The American Female Slave” and expressed solidarity of white women with black slave women.

Pg. 38 in Anti-Slavery Melodies
Words by Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

This originally appeared in Chapman’s Songs of the Free (154-157) as “The American Female Slave” and expressed solidarity of white women with black slave women.  Its author, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807-1834), was a well-known abolitionist poet, one whose relatively brief career is associated with Benjamin Lundy’s antislavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation.   See The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler:  with a Memoir of her Life and Character (Philadelphia: L. Howell, 1836) and Essays, Philanthropic and Moral, Principally Relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America (Philadelphia: L. Howell, 1836).  

Little is known about this song’s tune, one that appears more a spontaneously harmonized invocation than a song based on a freestanding melody.

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