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Down into the earth went the plow

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    In the slave hands,

    In indentured urous hands,

    turning t the plow in many hands

    t planted and ed t fed

    And tton t clothed America.

    Clang against trees  to many hands

    t ops of America.

    Splaso t t-hulls

    t moved and transported America.

    Crack  t drove the horses

    Across the plains of America.

    Free hands and slave hands,

    Indentured urous hands,

    e hands and black hands

    he plow handles,

    Ax handles, hammer handles,

    Launcs and whe horses

    t fed and housed and moved America.

    togethrough labor,

    All these hands made America.

    Labor! Out of labor came villages

    And to greies.

    Labor! Out of labor came ts

    And ts and teamboats,

    Came the coaches,

    Covered age coaches,

    Out of labor came tories,

    Came the railroads.

    Came ts and markets, sores,

    Came ty products moulded, manufactured,

    Sold in shops, piled in warehouses,

    She wide world over:

    Out of labor-we hands and black hands-

    Came trengthe will,

    And to build America.

    No is Me here.

    Nos Mantan, Chicago,

    Seattle, New Orleans,

    Boston and El Paso-

    Nos the U.S.A.

    A long time ago, but not too long ago, a man said:

    ALL MEN ARE CREAtED EQUAL--

    ENDOED BY tOR

    ItAIN UNALIENABLE RIGhtS--

    AMONG tY

    AND t OF hAPPINESS.

    hen,

    But in ts too,