The sailor, who had served in the slave trade. (From Southey's poems.)
Subtitle: In September, 1798, a dissenting minister of Bristol, discovered a sailor in the neighbourhood of that city, groaning and praying in a hovel. The circumstance that occasioned his agony of mind is detailed in the annexed ballad ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 48605
Publisher: Sold at the printing-office, New Bedford.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: New Bedford, Mass.
Language: eng
Subjects: Sailors; Personal narratives; Slave trade; Poetry
Other titles: He stopt,--it surely was a groan.
Notes: Verse in thirty-one stanzas; first line: He stopt,--it surely was a groan.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 29.4 x 18.4 cm.

Bristol B10507

Shipton & Mooney 48605

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2887