Poet

Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis

1814–1884

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English

• A Mother’s Grief
• A Prayer
• An Appeal to Woman
• Hours of Childhood
• Life
• My Country
• Past Joys
• Prayer
• The Farewell
• The Grave of the Slave
• The Separation
• The Slave
• The Slave Girl’s Address to Her Mother
• The Slave Girl’s Farewell
• To the Hibernia