[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. Anti-slavery "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" token.

N.p., n.d., ca late 18th century. approx. 32 mm metal token (light wear). Obverse inscribed "Am I Not a Man and a Brother," above a supplicant kneeling enslaved man in chains originally designed by the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and popularized by Josiah Wedgwood when he used it on his abolitionist Jasperware cameo medallions produced in the late 18th century. The image and phrase became popular among abolitionists including the American Anti-Slavery Society. Reverse inscribed "Whatsoever Ye Would That Men Should Do To You, Do Ye Even So To Them." Possibly struck for The Society for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, which was founded in London in 1787.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.