The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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Oh! Freedom

(Negro Slave Song)

Oh! Freedom, oh! Freedom,

Oh! Freedom, over me;

And before I’ll be a slave

I’ll be buried in my grave,

And go home to my God

And be free.

Fredome