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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM. William Wilberforce, Friend of Africa. Copper commemorative medal, 3 inches (55mm) diameter, with the head of Wilberforce on one side and Britannia seated with the allegorical figures of Wisdom and Justice, and before her Commerce, while above Religion flies as an angel of victory. i have heard their cry-slave trade abolished mdcccvii. An xtremely fine example in a later 19th-century silk-lined case made by Hunt and Roskell, Jewellers to the Queen and Royal family. London, 1808
A beautifully crafted medal designed by Thomas Webb, a Birmingham medalist and wax modeler, active circa 1797-1830. William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson are the two individuals most certainly credited with the end of the African slave trade and Emancipation in the West Indies. Reference: Lawrence Brown, British Historical Medals, 1760-1960, Volume I, page 154, Number 627.
