This was sold in the Eighteenth Century to raise money to promote the abolition of slavery.
‘Am I not a man and a brother’. ‘May slavery & oppression cease throughout the world’. On the edge is milled ‘Payable in Belfast, Dublin and Cork’. It is undated, but would have been produced in the 1790s, as where similar tokens in Britain and America. An Irish anti-slavery halfpenny token, sold to raise money to promote abolition.
‘Am I not a man and a brother’. ‘May slavery & oppression cease throughout the world’. On the edge is milled ‘Payable in Belfast, Dublin and Cork’. It is undated, but would have been produced in the 1790s, as where similar tokens in Britain and America.
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