A young colored man (by his amanuensis) pleading for education for himself, his sisters and his race
Subtitle: Tune:--"Scots wa ha wy Wallace bled."
Publisher: Printed by W.S. Bailey
Published: 1870
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Education; Poetry
Other titles: Master, see the ice and snow, father died long time ago; Scots wha hae (Tune)
Notes: Without music.

Song in sixteen stanzas; two columns.

Imprint date determined by listings for William Shreve Bailey in extant Nashville directories and evidence from blind stamp "J. Linton Waters, commissioner for [Massachusetts?], Chicago, Ill." on the American Antiquarian Society copy. Waters, assistant secretary for the land department of the Illinois Central Railroad, 1856-1872, is last listed in the Chicago directory for 1872.

Allen, R.R. Tennessee, 0