"Am I Not a Woman & a Sister 1838"

abolitionist token

MEDALS, BADGES & COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS
Wedgwood, Josiah
USA
1838
0 x 0 x 0

Abolitionist token; copper; obverse: kneeling woman with hands clasped, chained and raised, "AM I NOT A WOMAN & A SISTER 1838"; reverse: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and in center "LIBERTY/ 183" [sic.]; representative of type known as "hard times tokens"; designed 1787 by Josiah Wedgwood.


1997.143

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