Samboe; or, The African Boy

“She uttered a piercing shriek, & clasped her child with convulsive strength to her bosom imploring the tyrant not to tear him from her widowed arms.”

See page 60.

London Published by Harvey & Darton, Gracechurch Street. June 14^th. 1823.

SAMBOE;

OR,

THE AFRICAN BOY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
“Twilight Hours Improved,” &c. &c.

And man, where Freedom’s beams and fountains rise,
Springs from the dust, and blossoms to the skies.
Dead to the joys of light and life, the slave
Clings to the clod; his root is in the grave.
Bondage is winter, darkness, death, despair;
Freedom the sun, the sea, the mountain, and the air!

Montgomery.

London:
PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON,
GRACECHURCH-STREET.
1823.

TO
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Esq.
M. P.

THIS SMALL VOLUME,
DIFFIDENTLY AIMING TO SERVE THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY
IS,
BY HIS KIND PERMISSION
TO GIVE IT THE SANCTION OF HIS NAME,
HUMBLY DEDICATED;
WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF UNFEIGNED VENERATION
AND RESPECT FOR HIS
EXALTED PATRIOTIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES,

And grateful acknowledgment
OF HIS CONDESCENSION, IN HONOURING WITH HIS
ATTENTION THE HUMBLE EFFORTS OF

THE AUTHOR.

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