The Black bird
Subtitle: together with the Fortunate slave, and Jolly sailor
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49746
Publisher: Sold at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill.
Published: 1780
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Slaves -- Poetry; Women -- Poetry; Sailors in literature
Genres: Poetry
Other titles: Fortunate slave; Jolly sailor
Notes: Three poems

The Bible and Heart, Boston, was the sign of Thomas (1732-1797) and John Fleet from 1780 to 1797, of John and Thomas (1768-1827) Fleet from 1797 to 1803, and of Thomas Fleet (1768-1827) from 1803 to 1806

Relief cut at left of title; text in two columns; printed area measures 31.6 x 17.6 cm

Not in Evans or Bristol

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 2981

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. 49746)
Table of contents: value: The Black bird (first lines: Early one morning for soft recreation, I heard a young damsel a making her mourn); value: The Fortunate slave (first line: O hark! O hark! a little while); value: The Jolly sailor (first line: You virgins come pity a lady so fair)