The sailor, who had served in the slave trade. (From Southey's poems.) In September, 1798, a dissenting minister of Bristol, discovered a sailor in the neighbourhood of that city, groaning and praying in a hovel. The circumstance that occasioned his agony of mind is detailed in the annexed ballad ...

People / Organizations

• Robert Southey (Author)

Imprint

[New Bedford, Mass.]: Sold at the printing-office, New Bedford, [1798?]

Publication year

1798-1798

ESTC No.

W35182

Grub Street ID

345875

Description

1 sheet ; 35 x 18.3 cm

Note

Verse in thirty-one stanzas; first line: He stopt,--it surely was a groan.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 29.4 x 18.4 cm.Citation/references Bristol, B10507

Shipton & Mooney, 48605

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2887