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
Subjects: Extortion; Poetry; Moral conditions; Economic conditions
Other titles: Come all you friends to goodness, I pray you to attend.
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.

Evans 10114

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2114a

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 705