...Warm social joys surround the negro's cot, The evening dance ils merriment imparts, Love, with its rapture, fills their youthful hearts. And placid age,...knows, Laments no poor-house penance at its close." We invite the attention of robust carpenters, and masons, and farmers, and laborers of every kind,...

...Warm social joys surround the negro's cot, The evening dance its merriment imparts, Love, with its rapture, fills their youthful hearts, And placid age,...knows, Laments no poor-house penance at its close." We invite the attention of robust carpenters, and masons, and fanners, and laborers of every kind,...

...Warm social joys surround the Negro's cot, The evening dance its merriment imparts, Love, with its rapture, fills their youthful hearts, And placid age,...knows, Laments no poor-house penance at its close. (Ibid., pp. 50-51.) Convinced of the righteousness and humanity of slavery Grayson turns with scorn...

...chattel slave could look forward to "sunlight" and a rosy retirement after his "weary" work was done. While, nestling near, to bless their humble lot, Warm...knows, Laments no poor-house penance at its close. s' Read in this historical context, Davis's rejection of the racial metaphor proves just as fraught...

...Warm social joye surround the negro's cot, Tho evening dance its merriment imparts, Love-, with ite rapture, fills their youthful hearts, And placid age,...the winter sun, And, as through life no pauper want ho knows, Laments uo poor-house penance at its close." We invite the attention of robust carpenters,...