John X

JOHN X Freed American slave of ‘Pale children of the feeble sun’ Thomas Chatterton ‘America, it is to thee, Thou boasted land of liberty, It is to thee I raise my song, Thou land of blood, and crime, and wrong. It is to thee, my native land, From whence has issued many a band To tear the black man [woman and child] from his soil, And force [them] here to delve and toil;’ James Monroe Whitfield ‘America’ Watercolour and Oil Paint on Watercolour Paper Dec 2019 Adam R. Grose