Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1803
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Emiston, American
label: Student at
content: New York African Free School
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a strawberry vine border, a text:
label: Description
content: In Christ Jesus there is neither bond nor free that He came to let the oppressed
label: Description
content: go free and to break every yoke All who fear god and work righteous
label: Description
content: of whatever naion (sic) color or clime shall be accepted of him May God reward
label: Description
content: the Benefactors and forgive the enemies of Africa's children. Many
label: Description
content: daughters have done virtuously but may we remembering our peculiar obligations excel them all.
label: Description
content: Blest be the grace which moved the feeling heart
label: Description
content: To plead the cause of man and break his chains
label: Description
content: Blest be the men who taught the heavenly art
label: Description
content: To banish slav'ry's bonds from freedoms plains
label: Description
content: Let Afric's (sic) daughters feel the grateful ties
label: Description
content: Which bind then to reward their Patrons care
label: Description
content: By striving to obtain the noble prize
label: Description
content: Of praise on earth and heav'n's bright crown to wear
place: label: made in
content: New York, NY, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-77
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk in cross stitch
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 28 x 42.5cm (11 x 16 3/4 in.)