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Work title:
"The Negro Slaves, a Dramatic-Historical Piece, in Three Acts."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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"Uncategorized"
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Date: 1796
"Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!"
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)