...slaveholder's post-mortem praises into rhyme — to write a requiem for a valued or valuable slave. Here it is: I. Haste! bury her under the meadow's green lea, My faithful old black woman Sue ; There never was negro more useful than she, There never was servant more true; Ah! never again will a slaveholder own A darkey so honest as she who has gone. Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her...