Wedgwood: the radical potter
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Was Wedgewood Involved in the Abolition Movement?
Widgewood helped design the emancipation badge. He also wrote a series of letters to correspondents, setting out his belief in the need for abolition and trying to convince them of the rightness of the cause. wedgewood supported equiano, who was the great a freed slave who was campaigning for abolition. And when equiano needs political support and actually support for his personal safety, wedgewood supports that.
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