Shall the mercy that we cherish, As old England’s primest boast, See no slaves but those who perish On a far and foreign coast?
In the article ""Of "Haymakers" and "City Artisans": The Chartist Poetics of Eliza Cook's "Songs of Labor,"" Solveig Robinson states: "Cook uses the Chartist trope of the domestic slave and a string of rhetorical questions to challenge the effects of unregulated labor, not only on the workers themselves, but on the society as a whole."