Page from a book on an unidentified book on slavery, with an enslaved woman and child
An engraving showing a woman seated under a palm tree, holding a small child. On the reverse the following poem is printed: ‘Negro woman, who sittist pining in captivity and weepest over thy sick child though no one seeth thee. God pitieth thee; raise thy voice forlorn and abandoned one; call upon him from amidst thy bonds for assuredly He will hear thee'.
The page has been cut from a book.
The page has been cut from a book.
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Object Details
ID: | ZBA2583 |
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Collection: | Special collections |
Type: | |
Display location: | Not on display |
Date made: | circa 1800 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund |
Measurements: | Image: 125 mm x 135 mm |