Citation - Pennsylvania Chronicle: 1768.01.04

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Index Entry Grainger, author of lyric [beg] Yet, Planter, let humanity prevail 
Location London 
Citation
PC.768.001
28 Dec 1767-4 Jan 1768:1994 (1/51)
Please to insert the following extract from Grainger's
Sugar-Cane, a Poem, and oblige a constant reader. [signed]
Theophilus.
  Yet, Planter, let humanity prevail.---
  Perhaps thy Negro, in his native land, 
  Possest large fertile plains, and slaves and herds, 
  Perhaps, when e'er he deign'd to walk abroad, 
  The richest silks, from when the Indus rolls, 
  His limbs invested in their gorgeous pleats:
  . . . [27 more lines]


Generic Title Pennsylvania Chronicle 
Date 1768.01.04 
Publisher Goddard, William 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1768 
Bibliography B0033396
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