Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Anti-Slavery Society, c. 1790, a white metal medal, unsigned [by W. Dixon after W. Hackwood], chained slave kneeling right, rev. whatsoever ye would, etc, 33mm (DH Middlesex 237; BHM 269); Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands, 1793, a red wax impression of a medal or seal of the society, 53mm [2]. First fine, second broken into several pieces
£90-120

Provenance: *First Baldwin FPL June 1997 (501).

The Conversion Society originated in a bequest by Robert Boyle in 1691 for advancing religion amongst infidels and until the American War of Independence it was funded from the rents of an estate at Brafferton, Yorkshire, by way of William and Mary College, Virginia. In 1794 the charity was reconstituted as ’The Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands’ and in 1836, after the abolition of slavery, as ‘The Society for Advancing the Christian Faith in the British West-India Islands, and elsewhere, in the Dioceses of Jamaica, and of the Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, and in the Mauritius’