How long shall Afric's sons
Be sons of grief and pain?
How long shall slavery curse the earth,
And mercy plead in vain?

Lift up your voice to day,
In Freedom's holy cause,
Till all the world in love obey
Their Maker's righteous laws.

Ye Christians! bought with blood
For sinners freely pour'd;
Awake — awake, and make the slave
A freeman of the Lord.

Then in your blissful songs,
Shall bond and free unite,
His praise to spread, to whom belongs
All majesty and might.