image of a kneeling slave was commissioned by the Abolition Society from the potter Josiah Wedgwood in 1788.
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This image of a kneeling slave was commissioned by the Abolition Society from the potter Josiah Wedgwood in 1788. It became an icon for anti-slavery movements
throughout the world during the next hundred years.
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