[F] Poem by Hannah More entitled 'The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman’s Lamentation' (1797)

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More uses the fictional voice of an enslaved West African woman to construct an abolitionist moral message that justifies the spiritual colonization of Africa by European Christians.

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    Suffolk Record Office, HD827/1. /1/4/2/8 (4747/377). Reproduced with permission of Suffolk Record Office.
  • original publisher
    J. Marshall printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious & Moral Tracts.
  • original publisher place
    London