An Appeal to a Clerical Friend

Title
An Appeal to a Clerical Friend
Alternative Title
Thou art a teacher sent from Heaven! 'Tis well!
Date
by 1841
Is Part Of
Poems 1841
Bibliographic Citation
Burleigh, William Henry, Poems. Philadelphia: J. Miller M'Kim; Pittsburgh: Ingram and M'Candless; New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1841, 62-65.
Vermont Telegraph (Brandon, Vermont), July 14, 1841, p. 1.
Note
When this poem was published in Orson Murray's Vermont Telegraph, the question of clergy collusion with the slave power was a key issue among VT abolitionists
Subject
Religion
Apostrophe
Creator
Daguerreotype of William BurleighWilliam Henry Burleigh
Item sets
William Henry Burleigh Poems