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MEDAL
Unique ID: IOW-1FD174
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A post-Medieval copper-alloy anti-slavery medal, c. 1790. Obverse: AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER; central motif illustrates a male slave manacled and in chains, kneeling right on ground, in supplication. Reverse: MAY SLAVERY & OPPRESSION CEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; Central motif of clasped hands. The edge of the medal is plain. Diameter: 28.0mm. Weight: 6.20g. Images and inscriptions such as these, with their appeal to the sympathy of the viewer, were common devices circulated by anti-slavery abolitionists in Britain to further their campaign. Medals such as this would have been distributed at meetings or sold, with the proceeds going to fund the abolitionist campaign.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1790
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 6.2 g
Diameter: 28 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 12th September 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: IOW2010-1-582
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
District: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Isle of Wight
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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