Cradle Quilt from 1836 Anti-Slavery Fair

Title: Cradle Quilt from 1836 Anti-Slavery Fair
Rights: Digital Commonwealth, at Historic New England collections; Historic New England Link
Creator: Maybe Lydia Maria Child; Lydia Maria Child
Date: December 1836
Language: English for poem in center
Subject: Text of poem, hand-inked in center:
Mother! when around your child/You clasp your arms in love,/And when with grateful joy you raise/Your eyes to God above,-/Think of the negro mother,when/Her child is torn away,/Sold for a little slave-oh then/For that poor mother pray!