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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 29. 7s. & 6s.” [“God of Wide Creation”]

by Antislavery Webmaster — last modified 2008-08-02 12:42 2006 by the Antislavery Literature Project

The song borrows its title from the first verse of Isaac Watts’s Hymn 115, “God the Avenger of His Saints” (The Works, 1810, vol. 4).

Pgs. 44-45 in Anti-Slavery Melodies
Words by C.W. Dennison.
Tune: Missionary Hymn

American musical entrepreneur Lowell Mason (1792-1872) wrote this tune in 1823 while working in Savannah, Georgia.  The song borrows its title from the first verse of Isaac Watts’s Hymn 115, “God the Avenger of His Saints” (The Works, 1810, vol. 4). 

The tune is best known in the United States as the accompanying tune to Reginald Heber’s (1783-1826) missionary text, “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains.”  Charles Ives (1874-1954), the American composer and son of an abolitionist, wrote a stirring fugue on Missionary Hymn in the third movement of his 4th Symphony.

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