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| Keywords: american history americanhistory african american africanamerican money smithsonian probably public domain probablypublicdomain round circle lunar blackandwhite white background ancient black and white SI Neg. 74-4830. Date: na..."Am I not a man and a brother?" So reads the inscription on this oval, white jasper medallion featuring a black basalt relief figure of an African slave in chains. Britain's Committee to Abolish the Slave Trade adopted the phrase as its motto in 1787, and anti-slavery campaigner Josiah Wedgwood began to reproduce the design on fashionable jasperware medallions and seals. The following year Wedgwood sent some of these medallions to Benjamin Franklin, who was President of the Abolition Society in America. He hoped that they would "acquaint [Franklin with a subject that] is daily more and more taking the possession of men's minds on this side of the Atlantic as well as with you." The British parliament outlawed slavery in 1807. ..Credit: Alfred Harrell (Smithsonian Institution) SI Neg. 74-4830. Date: na..."Am I not a man and a brother?" So reads the inscription on this oval, white jasper medallion featuring a black basalt relief figure of an African slave in chains. Britain's Committee to Abolish the Slave Trade adopted the phrase as its motto in 1787, and anti-slavery campaigner Josiah Wedgwood began to reproduce the design on fashionable jasperware medallions and seals. The following year Wedgwood sent some of these medallions to Benjamin Franklin, who was President of the Abolition Society in America. He hoped that they would "acquaint [Franklin with a subject that] is daily more and more taking the possession of men's minds on this side of the Atlantic as well as with you." The British parliament outlawed slavery in 1807. ..Credit: Alfred Harrell (Smithsonian Institution) | ||||
