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Josiah Wedgwood II (3 de abril de 1769 - 12 de julho de 1843), filho do oleiro inglês Josiah Wedgwood, continuou a firma de seu pai e foi membro do Parlamento (MP) por Stoke-upon-Trent de 1832 a 1835. Ele era um abolicionista, e detestava a escravidão.
Josiah Wedgwood II (3 April 1769 – 12 July 1843), the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1832 to 1835. He was an abolitionist, and detested slavery.
Josiah Wedgwood FRS (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) [1] was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery .
- A Critical Friend
- Are We Not Brethren?
- Wearable Allyship
- Insatiable Demand
- A Bitter-Sweet Connection
- Invisibly Intertwined
- Enslaver Turned Abolitionist
- A Second Generation of Campaigners
- ‘The Cement of The Anti-Slavery Movement’
Thomas Bentley was Josiah Wedgwood’s friend and business partner, advising Wedgwood on matters from taste and fashion to commercial advancement, and influencing his views on the slave trade. As Nonconformist Protestants, or Rational Dissenters, Wedgwood and Bentley championed equality for groups including women and the working classes. Bentley was ...
Erasmus Darwin, friend of Wedgwood and fellow member of the Lunar Society, was a gifted physician who published his politically progressive ideas in verse. Darwin’s popular poem The Botanic Garden, published in 1791, mentions Wedgwood’s medallion in its plea for an end to the slave trade. Hear, Oh Britannia! potent Queen of isles, On whom fair Art,...
Wedgwood’s abolition medallions soon became popular protest symbols. Abolitionists customised them into fashionable, wearable accessories such as buckles. Thomas Clarkson, a member of the committee of the Abolition Society, wrote:‘Some had them inlaid in gold on the lid of their snuff boxes. Of the ladies, several wore them in bracelets, and others...
These kinds of links, inconsistencies – hypocrisies – can be identified through several other objects in the collection. Josiah Wedgwood manufactured and distributed teapots and sugar bowls on a huge scale. The fashion for tea, coffee and chocolate, which taste bitter on their own, accelerated the demand for sugar and in turn for enslaved labour on...
The design on this tea canister shows a black child waiting on a couple taking tea. This was a popular scene that Wedgwood was able to reproduce in partnership with Liverpool-based printers Sadler & Green. Black children were brought to Britain as domestic servants, perceived at the time as ‘fashionable accessories’ who, unlike their white counterp...
Josiah Wedgwood took inspiration from ancient vases and reliefs being discovered in Greece and Italy, while at the same time, many country house owners were renovating or rebuilding their houses in the latest neo-classical style. Wedgwood’s wares in elegant black basalt or pastel-coloured jasper complemented these interiors perfectly and were purch...
Wedgwood did, however, ensure that his medallions reached the right people, including future Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin. Resident for many years in England before the outbreak of the American War of Independence, Franklin mixed in Bentley and Wedgwood’s progressive scientific, religious and political circles. Though he ...
Here you see Josiah Wedgwood with his wife Sarah and their children, who continued the fight for abolition. In 1807 an Act of Parliament was passed that ended the British trade in enslaved Africans –slavery itself was not formally outlawed in most British territories until 1834. Josiah Wedgwood II, known as Jos, is pictured on horseback in the cent...
In 1825 Sarah Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood’s daughter, formed with other notable women the Birmingham Ladies’ Society for anti-slavery. It raised funds, recruited support and planned sugar boycotts. Three years later, Sarah founded the North Staffordshire branch. Women’s political groups such as these created new spaces for women to debate and campaig...
12 de abr. de 2016 · Josiah Wedgwood II, an English manufacturer, was born Apr. 12, 1769 (first image above). Josiah II was the son of the founder of the Wedgwood Pottery firm, and he inherited the company upon the death of Josiah I in 1795.
Staffordshire potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730 – 95) was a pioneering tastemaker, marketeer and social campaigner. In 1759, Josiah founded his ceramics company which achieved global success and remains in production today.
Josiah Wedgwood II primary name: Wedgwood, Josiah II other name: Wedgwood, Josiah
