“Am I not a Man and a Brother?” was first produced by Josiah Wedgwood in 1787 as a medallion, roughly fifty years before the abolition of slavery in England. Of the image, University Professor John Barclay proclaims, "The slave in chains is kneeling in appeal to an unseen authority, evoking the emerging British self-image as a benevolent nation, committed to freedom and endued with the power to change the lives of others. … Both the quesion and its exact terms are important: it invites us to see this figure not as a ‘brute’, not as a ‘heathen’, not as a ‘savage’, now even as a ‘Negro’, but…