Pale blue silk handbag with silver clasp made in support of the anti-slavery movement, date ca. 1820
Donated by Elizabeth Fox Howard in 1915. Originally belonged to the donor’s grandmother Rebecca Fox of Tottenham.
Screen printed: on one side with a picture of a mother with a baby on her lap., on the other a printed text::

Negro Woman who sittest pining in
captivity and weepest over thy sick
child though no one seeth thee.
God seeth thee though no one pitieth thee.
God pitieth thee; raise thy voice forlorn
and abandoned one; call upon him
from amidst thy bonds for assuredly
He will hear thee.

Height 21 cm Width (at bottom) 20.3 cm Width at clasp 14 cm (5½ inches). (Now on loan and displayed at the Museum in Docklands, London, in their 'London, Sugar and Slavery' gallery).

With kind permission of 'The Library of the Religious Society of Friends'.