Wedgwood's Emancipation Badge

An important part of wedgwood's background was his nonconformity. He comes from a unitarian background, one of the most progressive, interesting, challenging sects within a protestant nonconformist world. And so he had this great desire to challenge. His greatest contribution is known as the emancipation badge. Because he was an abolitionist and believed in the need to abolish the trade in enslaved africans. The symbol became the great icon of anti slavery activism in the 17 eighties and 17 nineties.