Blood Root
After notes of the defending attorney Walter Fontaine, in the trial of Christopher Johnson, accused of beating an enslaved boy to death in July 1823, Walter Lloyd Fontaine, Esq.
—Fontaine Papers 1787–1860, Library of Virginia
—Fontaine Papers 1787–1860, Library of Virginia
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in Saturn’s gall secure it
in the province of the sensible unbenignant
blink it indifferent/ consign it
to consciousness keep it or pass by this neck this neck
in the province of the sensible unbenignant
blink it indifferent/ consign it
to consciousness keep it or pass by this neck this neck
of the woods/ the draw the spell the fire as hell as bent
as ash to evil as power to glory/ sweat bath
rebirth & atonement &
recompense or go down go down
as ash to evil as power to glory/ sweat bath
rebirth & atonement &
recompense or go down go down
