Read Bailey's book, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

The Silken Veil   
By Paula Koenigsmark

Weep but do not forget to
Quench the water from your eyes with the
Blazing fire of rage over the
Atrocities which beset the poor.


And why are there poor at all?
Who has set a price upon their poverty?
The valued treasury of slaves!


Upon whose ear rings the cries of the poor for deliverance?
He will lift them up to the cool, pure waters of heaven
Within a silken veil of tender mercy.