FREEDOM’S LYRE

(1840)

"Or,Psalms, Hymns, and Sacred Songs for the Slave and His Friends," the best known of the anti-slavery hymnals inspired by William Lloyd Garrison and published between 1834 and 1856. Compiled by Edwin F. Hatfield, clergyman and hymnologist, {}Freedom’s Lyrecontains 291 hymns,metrical psalms, anddoxologies(texts only) devoted to anti-slavery themes.