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  • Legacies of slavery
  • Patch box
  • Porcelain sugar bowl
  • Small cup
  • 'The Black Boy' by William Windus
  • Gee's Bend quilt
  • 'The Hunted Slaves' by Richard Ansdell
  • Postcard depicting picaninny caricature
  • Advertisement for grate polish
  • Probate copy of the will of Thomas Leyland
  • Ku Klux Klan outfit
  • 'The Story of Little Black Sambo'
  • The Black Achievers Wall

Patch box

South Staffordshire, c1790

Enamel on copper

small enamel box with image of akneeling enslaved African in chains, raising his hands in appeal

Patch box with abolitionist motif  'AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER'.

Accession number 1987.212.3

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