Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Alternate Title(s):
Am I not a man and a brother?
Published / Created:
England, not before 1787.
Physical Description:
1 fob seal : gilding over copper or copper alloy, cornelian-colored glass ; face 31 x 24 mm, depth 43 mm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Flat D 3Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View catalog record for a signet ring bearing the design of the anti-slavery medallion
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11968355
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Art and emancipation in Jamaica, p. 295Reilly, R. Wedgwood, v. 1, p. 114-115Bindman, D. "Am I not a man and a brother?: British art and slavery in the eighteenth century." In Res 26 (Autumn 1994), p. 68-82Honour, H. Image of the black in Western art, p. 62-64Fob ring, depicting a kneeling enslaved man in shackles and motto that reads (in reverse): "Am I not a man and a brother?" The image is after a design by William Hackwood, for Josiah Wedgwood, and was adopted as the seal for the London Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787. The image and motto is engraved in intaglio, within an oval of cornelian-colored glass. The metal frame incorporates images of two urns.Letters closed with sealing wax impressed with the present fob seal would have indicated the sender's support for the abolition of slavery.
Subject Terms:
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. | Antislavery movements -- Great Britain. | Black people in art. | Slave trade -- Great Britain.
