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    A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery: "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
    A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery: "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
    A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery: "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
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    A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery: "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

    By Martin Farquhar Tupper

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    Martin Farquhar was born in London On 17th July 1810. He was educated first at Charterhouse and then Christ Church Oxford. Among his fellow students were the infamous Earl Of Elgin and the future Prime Minister WE Gladstone. His Proverbial Philosophy was eventually a long series and a big seller of almost a million copies in the United States. Her we look at his poems and concern ourselves here with a slim collection that spoke out about slavery. It helped to illustrate the stain that had ingrained itself into the social and political fabric. Although outlawed by Britain many years before these writings it was as endemic in many parts of the world then as it still is today. At the end of his life he vanished into obscurity and nowadays his work is almost forgotten. He died in November 1889 at Albury in Surrey. On his gravestone are the words: "Although he is dead, he will speak."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9781783945511
    A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery: "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

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      A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery - Martin Farquhar Tupper

      A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery

      by Martin Farquhar Tupper

      Introduction

      Martin Farquhar was born in London On 17th July 1810.  He was educated first at Charterhouse and then Christ Church Oxford.  Among his fellow students were the infamous Earl Of Elgin and the future Prime Minister WE Gladstone.

      A student at Lincoln’s Inn he was called to the bar in Michaelmas Term 1835.  That same year he married his cousin Isabella Devis, they were to eventually have eight children.

      That same year he began his writing career, contributing to various periodicals.  However he also published a short volume of essays Sacra Poesis.

      1837 is noted for the first appeared of Proverbial Philosophy.  This was eventually to be a long series.  It first met with moderate success in England but flopped initially in the United States.  By 1867 it had published forty editions in England and almost a million copies in the United States.

      We concern ourselves here with a slim collection that spoke out about slavery. 

      It helped to illustrate the stain that had ingrained itself into the social and political fabric.  Although outlawed by Britain many years before these writings it was as endemic in many parts of the world then as it still is today.

      At the end of his life he vanished into obscurity

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