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"The Negroes' Vigil!"
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This contains content which may cause distress. Some of the historic language expressed here is considered offensive, and its presence is not an endorsement of the terms. This language has been retained to reflect the historical context of the times.
A poem 'written expressly for the 1st August 1834' by James Montgomery (1771-1854) and set to music by John Valentine. The broadside has a small vignette of an enslaved person kneeling in chains; profits of its sale were 'given in aid of Missionary Societies'. Montgomery was a prolific poet and hymn writer. His missionary parents moved from Scotland to Barbados in 1783. He wrote a number of abolitionist poems, including 'The West Indies' (1809).
This contains content which may cause distress. Some of the historic language expressed here is considered offensive, and its presence is not an endorsement of the terms. This language has been retained to reflect the historical context of the times.
A poem 'written expressly for the 1st August 1834' by James Montgomery (1771-1854) and set to music by John Valentine. The broadside has a small vignette of an enslaved person kneeling in chains; profits of its sale were 'given in aid of Missionary Societies'. Montgomery was a prolific poet and hymn writer. His missionary parents moved from Scotland to Barbados in 1783. He wrote a number of abolitionist poems, including 'The West Indies' (1809).
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Object details
| ID: | ZBA2572 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Purday, Z. T.; Montgomery, J. |
| Date made: | 1834 |
| People: | Purday, Z. T.; Montgomery, J. |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 225 mm x 141 mm; Image: 207 mm x 92 mm |