Uncle Isham

Broadsheet. At head of text, in brackets: The subject of the following poetical effusion was a pious coloured man, who appears to have belonged to a family of slaves in North Carolina, who are now in a process of emancipation by the active exertions of their master and mistress. The poem is the production of the latter. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.