"Think, ye masters, iron-hearted, / Lolling at your jovial boards, / Think how many backs have smarted / For the sweets your cane affords."
The Negro's Complaint
At least 19 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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Originally appeared in the London <u>General Magazine</u>, ed. T. Bellamy II (June 1788), 323-4. See also "The Negro's Complaint" <u>Stuart's Star, and Evening Advertiser</u>, No. 43 (Thursday, April 2, 1789). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/infomark.do?contentSet=LTO&docType=LTO&type=multipage&tabID=T012&prodId=BBCN&docId=Z2001346082&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE&enlarge=true&docPage=browseissue&source=gale">Link to Burney Collection</a>&gt;<br>
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Also See <u>Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In Two Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1798), 1:331-3.&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB130860138&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Cowper, William, <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols, Ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), III.