国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 2月27日 20時28分

Similar in size, these two objects from the 1830s make a dynamic pairing. Together, they show how Americans have grappled with questions of freedom, inclusion, and equality since the nation's founding. Swipe right to take a closer look at each of them.
Small metal badges like the one shown here were produced in Charleston, South Carolina between 1800 and the Civil War. Enslaved men and women who were employed in the city were often forced to wear these badges as they moved about the Charleston's public spaces. In addition to the year, the badges listed their occupations. This 1833 badge lists the occupation of "Servant." (The museum's collection also includes badges marked for a porter and a mechanic). Typically, an enslaved person was not able to keep the wages they earned as they worked; all the profits from their labor went back to those who held them in bondage.
In 1833 (the same year that this badge would have been issued), Parliament approved of the Slavery Abolition Act, which abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. A year later, in 1834, this silver medal cast was produced by the British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Decades earlier, the sculptor Henry Webber had designed the image of a kneeling enslaved person with chained, outstretched hands for the ceramic medallions produced by Josiah Wedgwood & Co. The accompanying text, “Am I not a man and a brother?” was added to highlight the cruel treatment of enslaved people and invoke accounts of abuse that were circulating in abolitionist literature. Items like these were meant to galvanize support for ending human bondage worldwide. Though England abolished slavery in 1833, the institution continued in the United States until the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865.
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