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Am I Not a Man and a Brother, ca. 1789 | Additional Description: woodcut print 1837, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographic Division, LC-USZC4-5321
Designed at the end of the 18th century, this emblem was commissioned by the British Quaker-led Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Upon approval, the design became a seal used by the Society while cameo versions were shipped to America where they quickly became a fashionable symbol of abolition. This particular version appeared in John Greenleaf Whittier’s antislavery poem, “Our Countrymen in Chains.”
Submitted: April 19, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p150745
File Size: 0.084 Megabytes
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