[Anti-Slavery Medal]: We Are All Brethren

Birmingham, [U.K.]: G.F. Pigeon and John Phillip, 1807.

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Unbound. Original copper coin or token. Approximately 1.5" in diameter. Modest rubbing, original patina, very good or better (we are not coin dealers and can only judge this item using book standards). A medal commemorating the abolition of the slave trade by Britain, issued for distribution in Sierra Leone. The token was designed to announce Britain's newly imposed ban on slave trading, largely aimed at Arab-speaking traders in order to deter them from sending slave caravans to the west African coast for sale. The obverse scene shows a European and an African standing and shaking hands; beyond are huts, palm trees, and Africans dancing and tilling the soil. The Arabic inscription on the coin translates as "Sale of slaves prohibited in 1807, Christian era, in the reign of George the Third; verily, we are all brothers." For another example see the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

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Item #424564 [Anti-Slavery Medal]: We Are All Brethren
[Anti-Slavery Medal]: We Are All Brethren