Accession number
PML 198753
Creator
Montgomery, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thornton), 1819-1877, author.
Published
[Mississippi?] : [printer not identified], [approximately 1887]
Notes
Caption title.
"This Poem was dedicated to Isiah [sic] T. Montgomery, Founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, the first all-Negro town in the U.S., by Benjamin T. Montgomery."--Printed at foot of sheet.
Poem printed in eleven stanzas within triple ruled border; first lines: Out of the Dark wilds of Africa / Our Race by compulsion was brought.
Dedicated by black inventor, landowner, and freedman Benjamin T. Montgomery to his son, Isaiah T. Montgomery, who founded the independent black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, in 1887.
"This Poem was dedicated to Isiah [sic] T. Montgomery, Founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, the first all-Negro town in the U.S., by Benjamin T. Montgomery."--Printed at foot of sheet.
Poem printed in eleven stanzas within triple ruled border; first lines: Out of the Dark wilds of Africa / Our Race by compulsion was brought.
Dedicated by black inventor, landowner, and freedman Benjamin T. Montgomery to his son, Isaiah T. Montgomery, who founded the independent black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, in 1887.
Description
1 sheet ([1] pages) ; 28.2 x 13.9 cm
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