Shameful Trades is a poem in postmodern form for reprehensible acts as old as this country.

@God help me understand your intent
“A valuable Negro woman”
“Accustomed to all kinds of housework”
“Is a good plain cook “
“And excellent dairy maid”
“Washes and irons”
@God this woman is absolutely competent
“She has four children”
“One a girl about 13 years of age another 7”
“A boy 5 and an infant 11 months old”
“Two of the children will be sold with mother”
“The others separately if it best suit the purchaser”
@God can’t you read? This is a abhorrent