Summary: Join The Gist of Freedom as we discuss Benjamin Quarles' Book Black Abolitionists: With Dr. Walter Greason and hosts, Preston Washington & Ty El-Gray! Chapter 5/6 Self Emancipations, Self Help, and Mutual Aid Societies: The Dorcas, Sarah M. Douglass and Sarah Smith The Black Beauty“Black, I am, oh! daughters fair,”But my beauty is most rare;Black, indeed, appears my skin,Beauteous, comely, all within:Black, when by affliction press’dBeauteous, when in Christ I rest;Black, by sin’s defiling flood.Beauteous, wash’d in Jesus’ blood:Black, I am in mine own eyes,Beauteous, in my Lord’s I rise;Black I am to men ’tis true;Beauteous, in the angel’s view:Black, if Jesus frowns awhile,Beauteous, when I see him smile;Black, while in the tomb I lie,Beauteous, when I mount the sky!Written from Solomon’s Songs
