{"id":330,"date":"2021-06-18T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=330"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:14:22","slug":"harlem-shadows","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/harlem-shadows\/","title":{"raw":"Harlem Shadows","rendered":"Harlem Shadows"},"content":{"raw":"I hear the halting footsteps of a lass\r\nIn Negro Harlem when the night lets fall\r\nIts veil. I see the shapes of girls who pass\r\nTo bend and barter at desire\u2019s call.\r\nAh, little dark girls who in slippered feet\r\nGo prowling through the night from street to street!\r\n\r\nThrough the long night until the silver break\r\nOf day the little gray feet know no rest;\r\nThrough the lone night until the last snow-flake\r\nHas dropped from heaven upon the earth\u2019s white breast,\r\nThe dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet\r\nAre trudging, thinly shod, from street to street.\r\n\r\nAh, stern harsh world, that in the wretched way\r\nOf poverty, dishonor and disgrace,\r\nHas pushed the timid little feet of clay,\r\nThe sacred brown feet of my fallen race!\r\nAh, heart of me, the weary, weary feet\r\nIn Harlem wandering from street to street.","rendered":"<p>I hear the halting footsteps of a lass<br \/>\nIn Negro Harlem when the night lets fall<br \/>\nIts veil. I see the shapes of girls who pass<br \/>\nTo bend and barter at desire\u2019s call.<br \/>\nAh, little dark girls who in slippered feet<br \/>\nGo prowling through the night from street to street!<\/p>\n<p>Through the long night until the silver break<br \/>\nOf day the little gray feet know no rest;<br \/>\nThrough the lone night until the last snow-flake<br \/>\nHas dropped from heaven upon the earth\u2019s white breast,<br \/>\nThe dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet<br \/>\nAre trudging, thinly shod, from street to street.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, stern harsh world, that in the wretched way<br \/>\nOf poverty, dishonor and disgrace,<br \/>\nHas pushed the timid little feet of clay,<br \/>\nThe sacred brown feet of my fallen race!<br \/>\nAh, heart of me, the weary, weary feet<br \/>\nIn Harlem wandering from street to street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":24,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-330","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":279,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/279"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/330\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}