Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and
1787 Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the British anti-slavery campaign
Title page of a published lecture against slavery by Joseph Ivimey
Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Murray, the great-nieces of Chief Justice Lord Mansfield living at Kenwood House. Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, 1778
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), an escaped slave, gained fame as an active 18th-century British abolitionist. He opened a popular shop in Mayfair and mixed with influential people. He was the first person of African descent to vote.
The Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion was an abolitionist symbol produced and distributed by British potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood in 1787 as a seal for the Society for the Abolition of the Sl
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
…was published in nine editions in his lifetime, campaigned tirelessly against the slave trade. Also important were horrific images such as the famous Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion of 1787 and the engraving showing the ghastly layout of the slave ship, the Brookes. After the formation of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave…
A Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A copper coin produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society with a variation of the design featuring a woman
A 1788 engraving of the symbol
A French version of the medallion produced in 1789 in Sèvres