Medallion

Designed by Henry Webber and modeled by William Hackwood in 1787, this medallion was manufactured in England by Josiah Wedgwood to support the antislavery movement. The objects were distributed to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, whose members sold them to raise money for the cause. The powerful phrase “AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?” became an abolitionist rallying cry and was later echoed in Civil Rights–era placards reading “I AM A MAN.”