Read "The Slave-Mother" by Maria Lowell online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Her new-born child she holdeth, but feels within her heart
It is not hers, but his who can out-bid her in the mart; / And through the gloomy midnight her prayer goes up on high, / "God grant my little helpless one in helplessness may die!"