Accession number:
PML 199004
Published:
United States : [American Anti-Slavery Society], [1838].
Description:
1 token : copper ; 30 mm diameter
Credit:
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).
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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