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 ::'''Josiah Wedgwood''' joined the organising committee. As Adam Hochschild, the author of Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (2005) has pointed out: "Wedgwood asked one of his craftsmen to design a seal for stamping the wax used to close envelopes. It showed a kneeling African in chains, lifting his hands beseechingly." It included the words: "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"
-"Wedgwood's kneeling African, the equivalent of the label buttons we wear for electoral campaigns, was probably the first widespread use of a logo designed for a political cause" (Hochschild).
+:"Wedgwood's kneeling African, the equivalent of the label buttons we wear for electoral campaigns, was probably the first widespread use of a logo designed for a political cause" (Hochschild).
-:1787: Thomas Clarkson's speaking tour of the great ports and cities of England raises public interest. Publication of the African Olaudah Equiano's autobiography heightens public awareness, as the former slave expressed an unanswerable case against slavery in a work of literary merit.
+*1787: Thomas Clarkson's speaking tour of the great ports and cities of England raises public interest. Publication of the African Olaudah Equiano's autobiography heightens public awareness, as the former slave expressed an unanswerable case against slavery in a work of literary merit.
 *1789: Clarkson promotes the Committee's cause by encouraging the sale of Equiano's memoir and inviting the former slave to lecture in British ports linked to the slave trade.