Describe two (2) examples of how either black slaves or white abolitionists used literature or the visual arts as a form of protest against slavery. Compare this to a modern example of art used for social protest.
The two examples of protest against slavery I reviewed are a visual from Thomas Wedgwood and a literature from William Blake. Thomas Wedgwood was a member of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery and he suggested that an emblem on the title page of a pamphlet entitled 'An address to the People of Great Britain on the propriety of abstaining from West India sugar and rum' would heighten its impact. He commissioned a woodcut that later became the famous Slave Medallion because thousands were distributed in the UK and the USA. The
The two examples of protest against slavery I reviewed are a visual from Thomas Wedgwood and a literature from William Blake. Thomas Wedgwood was a member of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery and he suggested that an emblem on the title page of a pamphlet entitled 'An address to the People of Great Britain on the propriety of abstaining from West India sugar and rum' would heighten its impact. He commissioned a woodcut that later became the famous Slave Medallion because thousands were distributed in the UK and the USA. The