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Title: And there, farther south

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: Between 1850 and 1860

Whitman Archive ID: duk.00275

Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.

Editorial note: Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript fragment to the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:313).

Contributors to digital file: Jeannette Schollaert, Kevin McMullen, Nicole Gray, Brett Barney, and Kenneth M. Price



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^And there, farther south, The laughing early negro ^at daylight callsing his —I hear th brethren together by to the sound of the Carolina yell, to go ga in a body to th [gaily?] to work—


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