Then, Ethiopia, stretch, O stretch

Thy bleeding hands abroad!

Thy cry of agony shall reach

And find redress from God.

THE HOUR OF FREEDOM.[3]

BY WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

The hour of freedom! come it must.

O hasten it, in mercy, Heaven!

When all who grovel in the dust

Shall stand erect, their fetters riven;

When glorious freedom shall be won

By every caste, complexion, clime;

When tyranny shall be o'erthrown,

And color cease to be a crime.

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WILLIAM BOEN.

BY L. MARIA CHILD.

William Boen was born in 1735, one hundred and thirty years ago. He was the slave of a man who lived near Mount Holly, in New Jersey. His master and most of the neighbors belonged to the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers. That Society made it a rule that none of their members should hold a slave, long before the people of any other sect were convinced that slavery was wrong. But at the time William Boen was born some of the Quakers did hold slaves, though many of their members were preaching against it.

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