a land of milk and honey
Art and craft, cowries as money
gods and kings, elephant tusk held with attitude
goddess and queens in beads glorified in lofty magnitude
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Until came afar to our sultry shore strange color of men and sorts
Then our brothers became pillars of salts
Chains adorned their neck and feet
In grief we sailed or their bullet thy beat
Our blood stains turn wall bricks in a white man's home
Ploughing and tilling the field that a white man own
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They parted our loved ones and families
Summer and winter we worked in 100 degrees
Crown'd us as negros and figures we never campaigned
Hundreds of whip to the bare flesh in fears we died
300 years of woes, pain and suffering
300 years our ancestors survived the tears and tribulations
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Our first parent they sold and slayed
One unhappy race, from curses be plagued
Unto slavery heroes breed
Until the war against slavery Lincoln waged




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