Awake at the tune of pounds, shillings, and pence!
Reginald Augustine.
From The Mirror, 1830.
Negro Liberty.
Me be a nigger boy, born in de hovel,
What plantain da shade from de sun wha da shine,
Me learn to dig wid de spade and de shovel,
Me learn to hoe up de cane in a line.
Me drink my rum, in de calabash oval,