{"id":416,"date":"2021-06-21T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=416"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:25:22","slug":"enslaved","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/enslaved\/","title":{"raw":"Enslaved","rendered":"Enslaved"},"content":{"raw":"Oh when I think of my long-suffering race,\r\nFor weary centuries despised, oppressed,\r\nEnslaved and lynched, denied a human place\r\nIn the great life line of the Christian West;\r\nAnd in the Black Land disinherited,\r\nRobbed in the ancient country of its birth,\r\nMy heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead,\r\nFor this my race that has no home on earth.\r\nThen from the dark depths of my soul I cry\r\nTo the avenging angel to consume\r\nThe white man\u2019s world of wonders utterly:\r\nLet it be swallowed up in earth\u2019s vast womb,\r\nOr upward roll as sacrificial smoke\r\nTo liberate my people from its yoke!","rendered":"<p>Oh when I think of my long-suffering race,<br \/>\nFor weary centuries despised, oppressed,<br \/>\nEnslaved and lynched, denied a human place<br \/>\nIn the great life line of the Christian West;<br \/>\nAnd in the Black Land disinherited,<br \/>\nRobbed in the ancient country of its birth,<br \/>\nMy heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead,<br \/>\nFor this my race that has no home on earth.<br \/>\nThen from the dark depths of my soul I cry<br \/>\nTo the avenging angel to consume<br \/>\nThe white man\u2019s world of wonders utterly:<br \/>\nLet it be swallowed up in earth\u2019s vast womb,<br \/>\nOr upward roll as sacrificial smoke<br \/>\nTo liberate my people from its yoke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":28,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-416","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":346,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/416","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\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/346"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/416\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}