‘Am I not a Man…’ relic is a rarity in glass form

The medallion of a kneeling slave asking the rhetorical question 'Am I Not A Man And A Brother?' was first made in 1787 on the founding of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

It is thought to have been commissioned by committee member Josiah Wedgwood, modelled by the sculp…

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