Oppression: a poem. Or, New-England's lamentation of the dreadful extortion and other sins of the times.
Subtitle: 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.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 10114.
Publisher: Printed by Ezekiel Russell?
Published: 1777
Place of publication: [Salem or Danvers, Mass.?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Extortion -- Poetry.; New England -- Moral conditions -- Poetry.; New England -- Economic conditions -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Notes: Verse in twenty-seven stanzas; first line: Come all you friends to goodness, I pray you to attend.

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.

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.

Text in two columns.

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Evans 10114

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 2114a

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 705

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10114).