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Description: | Medal commemorating the abolition of the slave trade. Obverse: a European and an African standing, facing each other, with hands clasped; beyond are huts, palms and Africans dancing and tilling the soil. Legend: 'WE ARE ALL BRETHREN'. Exergue: 'SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED BY GREAT BRITAIN 1807'. Reverse: Arabic inscription (translation): 'Sale of slaves prohibited in 1807, Christian era, in the reign of George the Third; verily, we are all brothers'.
This medal, produced for distribution in Sierra Leone, announced Britain?s newly imposed ban on slave trading and was intended to deter Arab-speaking African traders from sending slave caravans to the coast for sale to European ship captains.
Ian Beilby 'Collecting Commemorative Medallions,Part II', 'Antique Collecting' Feb 2007, p.46. 'Macauley and Babington struck the issue for use in Sierra Leone.'
caption: Medal commemorating the Abolition of the slave trade | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Phillip Freedom Slavery Pidgeon G. F. John | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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