James Russell Lowell: If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's p

If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not fee — James Russell Lowell

If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?

James Russell Lowell

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