Harper suggests people boycott buying mainly cotton clothes made by slaves. Watkin Harper, the poet, was for the abolition of " Free Produce". This movement took place in the U.S in 1854. Through this poem, she is trying to persuade the readers to stop being an " accomplice" of slavery. In the American South , people are against slavery , yet they consume what the slaves manufacture. The poet says that the clothes -garment- she is wearing have not been made by hard -working salves in pain - no toiling slave wept over ..-
