The American Anti-Slavery Society produced "The Slave's Friend," a monthly pamphlet of abolitionist poems, songs, and stories for children. In its pages, young readers were encouraged to collect money for the anti-slavery cause. Here a picture of the coffle- yoke used to chain groups of slaves together illustrates a dialogue about the horrors of slavery between a girl named Ellen and her father, Mr. Murray. A shocked Ellen concludes that “I will never boast of our liberty while there is a slave in this land.
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-From The Slave's Friend, Volume II, p. 3. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.
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