Amusing Trial in Which a Yankee Lawyer Renders a Just Verdict
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Amusing Trial in Which a Yankee Lawyer Renders a Just Verdict
                                            
                            By Anonymous
                            
                                20 Jun, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        A time there was, when no one thought
It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought,
And of his strength have the command,
As much as of his house and land.
A Yankee Lawyer long had kept
A negro-man with whom he slept.
                                                A time there was, when no one thought
It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought,
And of his strength have the command,
As much as of his house and land.
A Yankee Lawyer long had kept
A negro-man with whom he slept. Less