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 :Petitions were presented to the House of Commons, anti-slavery rallies held, and a range of anti-slavery medallions, crockery and bronze figurines were made, notably with the support of the Unitarian Josiah Wedgwood.
-::'''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?"
+::'''Josiah Wedgwood''' joined the organising committee. He 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?" The 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.
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 :Nel 1787 viene fondata la Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade ("Società per l'abolizione della tratta"), un movimento abolizionista organizzato voluto, tra gli altri, dal deputato William Wilberforce e dall'attivista Thomas Clarkson, con il sostegno del primo ministro William Pitt.
-:The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, (or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade), was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London, England.
+:'''The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade,''' (or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade), was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London, England.
 :The Society worked to educate the public about the abuses of the slave trade; it achieved abolition of the international slave trade in 1807, enforced by the British Navy.