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1834 GEORGE THOMPSON. Important Abolitionist Poem that Led to His Attempted Murder in America! Methodist it was the model ofAn absolutely fantastic, unpublished poem written by noted abolitionist, George Thompson. It is a red hot, earnest rebuke of America and her complicity in slavery. Similar to Whittier's work, it challenges the American Christian with a series of questions designed to demand that the black slave is loved by Christ and is therefore worthy of equal treatment. It was penned in 1834, the year of Thompson's first visit to the United States. It may well have