Potential Titles: Abel C. Thomas [Iron Gray]

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The Gospel of Slavery at Project Gutenberg. 1864. Title page says 'by Iron Gray.' Vehemently anti-slavery alphabet book with a poem and discourse around the topic for each letter. Illustrated but the original seems to have been in bad enough shape (foxing) that the illustrations are hard to parse. I'm putting this note at the beginning because the title could be taken as ambiguous about its position on slavery; certainly, slaveholders used Gospel to justify themselves.



How comes dominion of brother by brother? - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Living by clamorous fraud - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Above the rude gang that he governs - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

His service is prized as treason is loved - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Though vultures still cloud the political sky - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Evils reserved in the judgment of God - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Furies are hot on their dangerous path - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Eluding the hunters of blood - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Struggle through thicket and perilous flood - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Till luxury gets what it wrongfully craves - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Do grapes grow on brambles or figs upon thorns? - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

For all institutions are born of the dust - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

May fitly be reckoned the wages of sin - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

How ages will reckon the guilt - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

May shout the brief wrath of a fiery star - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Much struggle and suffering yet may bequeath - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"


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