"Am I Not A Man and A Brother," detail from title page of Some Historical Account of Guinea by Anthony Benezet (London, 1788). Private Collection, on deposit at the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
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Created by Josiah Wedgwood in 1787 for the British Abolition Society, this image represented the antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. This version was printed in London in 1788 in a book by Philadelphia abolitionist Anthony Benezet.

“Am I Not A Woman and A Sister,” drawing by Nicholas Setteducato, adapted from an American medallion (1838). The Gilder Lehrman Collection.
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American abolitionists used this iconic image from the early 1800s until the Civil War. This sketch is based on an 1838 medallion, depicting the slave as a woman.