Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fugitives: And Other Poems
The happy promise of a brighter day, With God's fair fields as free as they are fair.
It is a gratifying feature of the emancipation of the slave that it has left no race resentment. The enfran chised Negro entertains no deep-seated animosity because of the oppression of yesterday which held him or his father in thrall. This reserves to him all the more strength and freedom to work out his destiny hopefully, and wring from the years to come, by his intelligence, frugality, industry, and patriotism, recompense for the cruel years that are gone. The exercise, under happier auspices, of the heroic qualities of patience, endurance, devotion, and courage shown by Adam Sage in The Fugitives, cannot fail to win for the Negro among his neighbors and fellow citizens the recognition and respect which manly worth invariably compels. There is room enough on this wide earth for all God's children, African as well as Caucasian; and the God-given boon of freedom is for all.
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