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2 unusual facts about Land of the Free


Land of the Free

The PUP had defied the colonial order by singing "God Bless America" instead of the royal anthem "God Save the King" (or Queen).

In author Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb, the title character and her friend Toycie Qualo sing the full version of the original song, Land of the Gods (of which the two opening and closing lines are mentioned in the story), while parodying the political meetings then being held by the PIP, a reference to the PUP, in Belize City.



see also

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Eva Lund Haugen and Einar Haugen, Bjørnson: Land of the free. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's American Letters 1880-1881 (1978)

Black No More

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations by George S. Schuyler (pronounced Sky-ler).

Jovan Sterija Popović

In his poem Godine 1848 (Year 1848) it is the betrayal of the ideals of the American Revolution—legal slavery in the land of the free; in Izobraženiku (To an Enlightened One) it is the hypocrisy of those who condemn the Ottoman Empire as barbaric, while at the same time engaging in conquest and the slave trade themselves.