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			Abolition

Medals carrying anti-slavery mottos and images were widely reproduced and distributed to celebrate the success of the abolitionist campaigns. This bronze medal commemorating the abolition of the British Slave Trade in 1807 shows an African and a European facing each other shaking hands. Behind them are huts, palm trees and people dancing and tilling the soil. The abolitionist hope was that ending the slave trade would lead naturally to slavery itself dying out and being replaced by a happy peasantry. It is inscribed 'We are all brethren. Slave trade abolished by Great Britain 1807