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According to the editors' commentary, The Medallion wasn't American-made. However, Columbia-TriStar bought the distribution and editing rights worldwide except in Japan, France, and Hong Kong (but these three countries retain the American cut of the film, the only cut ever made). The original cut was meant to be around 108 minutes.
The medallion became the emblem for the British movement carried forward by Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, leading to Parliament’s abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Men and women appropriated the cameo for personal ornament on snuff-box lids, shoe buckles, hair pins, pendants, and bracelets.
The medallion was actually designed by William Hackwood, who worked closely with Wedgwood, and it became the most famous image of a black person in all of eighteenth-century art.[3] The image and phrase became well known and a well-used and recognised symbol of allegiance to the abolitionist cause.
Jul 12, 2017 · “This medallion, first made in 1787, became a popular icon in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th centuries,” writes the Smithsonian...
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Thomas Bentley was Josiah Wedgwood’s friend and business partner, advising Wedgwood on matters from taste and fashion to commercial advancement, and influencing his views on the slave trade. As Nonconformist Protestants, or Rational Dissenters, Wedgwood and Bentley championed equality for groups including women and the working classes. Bentley was ...
Erasmus Darwin, friend of Wedgwood and fellow member of the Lunar Society, was a gifted physician who published his politically progressive ideas in verse. Darwin’s popular poem The Botanic Garden, published in 1791, mentions Wedgwood’s medallion in its plea for an end to the slave trade. Hear, Oh Britannia! potent Queen of isles, On whom fair Art,...
Wedgwood’s abolition medallions soon became popular protest symbols. Abolitionists customised them into fashionable, wearable accessories such as buckles. Thomas Clarkson, a member of the committee of the Abolition Society, wrote:‘Some had them inlaid in gold on the lid of their snuff boxes. Of the ladies, several wore them in bracelets, and others...
These kinds of links, inconsistencies – hypocrisies – can be identified through several other objects in the collection. Josiah Wedgwood manufactured and distributed teapots and sugar bowls on a huge scale. The fashion for tea, coffee and chocolate, which taste bitter on their own, accelerated the demand for sugar and in turn for enslaved labour on...
The design on this tea canister shows a black child waiting on a couple taking tea. This was a popular scene that Wedgwood was able to reproduce in partnership with Liverpool-based printers Sadler & Green. Black children were brought to Britain as domestic servants, perceived at the time as ‘fashionable accessories’ who, unlike their white counterp...
Josiah Wedgwood took inspiration from ancient vases and reliefs being discovered in Greece and Italy, while at the same time, many country house owners were renovating or rebuilding their houses in the latest neo-classical style. Wedgwood’s wares in elegant black basalt or pastel-coloured jasper complemented these interiors perfectly and were purch...
Wedgwood did, however, ensure that his medallions reached the right people, including future Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin. Resident for many years in England before the outbreak of the American War of Independence, Franklin mixed in Bentley and Wedgwood’s progressive scientific, religious and political circles. Though he ...
Here you see Josiah Wedgwood with his wife Sarah and their children, who continued the fight for abolition. In 1807 an Act of Parliament was passed that ended the British trade in enslaved Africans –slavery itself was not formally outlawed in most British territories until 1834. Josiah Wedgwood II, known as Jos, is pictured on horseback in the cent...
In 1825 Sarah Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood’s daughter, formed with other notable women the Birmingham Ladies’ Society for anti-slavery. It raised funds, recruited support and planned sugar boycotts. Three years later, Sarah founded the North Staffordshire branch. Women’s political groups such as these created new spaces for women to debate and campaig...
This medallion, first made in 1787, became a popular icon in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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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 Slave Trade.
