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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Looking it up- holy shit, you're right. And naturally the author was a slave-owner, an anti-abolitionist lawyer, and noted racist, which isn't particularly surprising when one reads the third verse onwards