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The Negroes' Vigil!
Publishers' broadside with a small vignette of a kneeling and enchained slave above a poem. The poem was ‘written expressly for the 1st August 1834’ by James Montgomery (1771-1854) and set to music by John Valentine. Profits from the broadside's 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).
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: | Special collections |
| 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 |