Oppression: a poem. Or, New-England's lamentation of the dreadful extortion and other sins of the times : Being a serious exhortation to all to repent and turn from the evil of their ways, if they would avert the terrible and heavy judgments of the Almighty that hang over America at this alarming and distressing day

Oppression: a poem. Or, New-England's lamentation of the dreadful extortion and other sins of the times : Being a serious exhortation to all to repent and turn from the evil of their ways, if they would avert the terrible and heavy judgments of the Almighty that hang over America at this alarming and distressing day.

Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Salem or Danvers, Mass.?] : [Printed by Ezekiel Russell?], [1777?]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Extortion--Poetry. New England--Moral conditions --Poetry. New England--Economic conditions --Poetry.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10114. ^A478749
General note	Verse in twenty-seven stanzas; first line: Come all you friends to goodness, I pray you to attend.
General note	Dated [1765] by Evans. However, the theme of extortion suggests to Ford and others that the poem was written about 1777 when this evil was a topic of common concern in the colonies. Cf. Winslow, Ola E. American broadside verse ... New-Haven, 1930, no. 89.
General note	Woodcuts are the same as those used frequently by Ezekiel Russell who was located at Salem, Mass., in 1776 and early 1777. In February or March, 1777, Russell moved his printing office to nearby Danvers, Mass.
General note	Text in two columns.
References	Evans 10114
References	Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2114a
References	Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 705
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10114).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Poems 1777.

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