YOUR OWN LITTLE BLACK.
Ain’t I black enough to be cared for? I’m not a black nigger ’tis true. As armies and fleets is prepared for, And missionaries is sent to. But I’m black as dirt can -well make oe, And if, by the look of my skin, You’d nigh for a blackamoor take me,1 ain’t not much lighter within. Although I’m no nigger, I look it, And haven’t been no better taught Than, seein’ a Bobby, to hook It, In coarse, to avoid bein’ caught. - We're worry much like one another, We are, arter all’s said and doue. If he’s a man and a brother. Why, ain’t I a boy and a son? And has to his place in creation. No doubt but my own is the same. Young monkey without eddieation; And who is the parties to blame ? But while, for all washin’ and rubhln*. The nigger a nigger will be. Your honors, with some little scruhbln'. May make a white Christian of me. — Punch.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 278, 14 June 1865, Page 3
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167YOUR OWN LITTLE BLACK. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 278, 14 June 1865, Page 3
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