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A Camp Meeting at the Gallows - UNC Press Blog
The following is an excerpt from The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti, available now wherever books are sold. A Camp Meeting at the Gallows There is a fountain fill’d with blood,Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,Lose all their guilty stains,Lose all their guilty stains.The dying thief rejoiced to seeThat fountain in his day;And there may I, though vile as he,Wash all my sins away.—Traditional Hymn A short address was made by parson Hays, colored; the hymn, If I must die, oh let...
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