Inscription Under The Picture Of An Aged Negro-Woman Comments

I am a student of early English abolitionists. This Poem reveals much of the inner workings of abolutionists' thought - generalized through Montgomery. One can only imagine the structure of the picture referenced in the Poem's title or; perhaps as with JW Turner's Slaveship Paintings, the picture, too, existed only in the mind of the abolitionist! Montgomery is saying that England's future is tied to her past-