A Wedgwood jasperware cameo, showing a slave in chains making an impassioned plea for freedom and respect, with the legend, ‘Am I not a Man, and a brother?’.
NOR was the philanthropy of the late Mr. Wedgwood less instrumental in turning the popular feeling in our favour. He took the seal of the committee for his model, and produced a beautiful cameo.
Mr. Wedgwood made a liberal donation of these, when finished, among his friends. I received from him no less than five hundred of them myself.
They, to whom they were sent, did not lay them up in their cabinets, but gave them away likewise. Some had them inlaid in gold on the lid of their snuff-boxes. Of the ladies, several wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair.
At length, the taste for wearing them became general; and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity, and freedom.
