Idle moments, containing Emancipation and other poems by D. Webster Davis : with an introduction by Hon. John H. Smythe, L.L.B., ex-U.S. Minister to Liberia

Webster was an African American poet from Richmond, Va. Here are several short poems or selections from poems that are humorous or didactic or that contain reminiscences. Subjects range from sketches of childhood to emancipation.
Prospectus.
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Signed at end: John Mitchell, Jr., editor Richmond planet.