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1846 HANNAH MORE. The Poetical Works of Hannah More. Abolitionist and Friend to William Wilberforce.

1846 HANNAH MORE. The Poetical Works of Hannah More. Abolitionist and Friend to William Wilberforce.

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A very attractive tooled morocco bound example of the Poetical Works of Hannah More. She was active as part of the influential Clapham Sect and a constant support [and faithful reproof at times] to William Wilberforce. She came to be known as the Bishop in Petticoats. 

The lines include devotional, historical, and activist works on slavery, including "The Slave Trade," an expansive poem that includes the following lines:

Whene’er to Afric’s shores I turn my eyes,
Horrors of deepest, deadliest guilt arise;
I see, by more than Fancy’s mirror shown,
The burning village, and the blazing town:
See the dire victim torn from social life,
See the sacred infant, hear the shrieking wife!
She, wretch forlorn! is dragged by hostile hands,
To distant tyrants sold, in distant lands:
Transmitted miseries, and successive chains,
The sole sad heritage her child obtains.
E’en this last wretched boon their foes deny,
To weep together, or together die.

More, Hannah. The Poetical Works of Hannah More. With a Memoir of the Author. Halifax. Printed and Published by William Milner, Cheapside. 1846. 504pp.

A very good copy, bound in morocco leather, generally solid, with pages that are generally bright, with light to moderate foxing.

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