Accession number
PML 199004
Published
United States : [American Anti-Slavery Society], [1838].
Credit line
Purchased on the John F. Fleming Fund, 2023.
Notes
Title transcribed from obverse of item.
American “Hard Times” tokens were produced in 1838 for the American Anti-Slavery Society, based on the 1787 design by Josiah Wedgwood on behalf of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (London).
American “Hard Times” tokens were produced in 1838 for the American Anti-Slavery Society, based on the 1787 design by Josiah Wedgwood on behalf of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (London).
Description
1 token : copper ; 30 mm diameter
Summary
Copper hard times token. Obverse, the Society's emblem of an enslaved man of African descent, naked and kneeling, with motto “Am I not a Man and a Brother”; reverse: two clasped hands in friendship, around which is the motto “May Slavery & Oppression Cease Throughout the World.”
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