Antislavery Medallion (Turquoise) T-Shirt

Junior fitted tee - runs small

In 1837 the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York commissioned a New Jersey firm to issue copper tokens featuring a kneeling female slave with the legend "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister." The Society based the token on an earlier design of a chained and kneeling male slave used for the seal of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, founded in England in 1787. The replacement of the man with a woman is indicative not only of a growing awareness of the special hardships that women suffered under slavery as victims of sexual exploitation but also of the prominent role that women were playing in the antislavery movement.