ANTI-SLAVERY BRISTOL INTEREST. A GEORGE IV BRASS PLAQUE

ANTI-SLAVERY BRISTOL INTEREST. A GEORGE IV BRASS PLAQUE

DEDICATED TO EDWARD PROTHEROE JNR ESQ., DATED '1830'

one side is engraved with a kneeling chained slave with the words 'Come Over & Help Us' coming from his mouth and inscribed 'Injured Brethren from your chains, you shall Freedom know. The arm of Liberty is strong. To crush its mightiest Foe', the other side inscribed 'To Edward Protheroe Junr Esqr, We the undersigned unbiased Free men in the employ of Messrs Wasbrough, Hale & Co. Brass Founders & Coppersmiths. Present this small Tribute of our Esteem for your very Able and Manly conduct in the late Election for this City', with fifteen names and 'Bristol Augt. 17th 1830', with a suspension ring

19.2 x 14cm

Catalogue Note

Edward Protheroe Junior (1798-1852)

Edward Protheroe Junior was a British Radical and Whig politician, merchant, plantation owner, antiquary and prominent advocate of liberal and abolitionist principles. The only son of the Bristol merchant and politician Edward Protheroe senior (1774–1856), he entered Parliament as Member for Evesham in 1826, subsequently representing Bristol and, from 1837, Halifax. Protheroe was an active supporter of parliamentary reform, religious liberalism and the abolition of slavery. His political career was particularly closely associated with the anti-slavery cause, which featured prominently in the contested Bristol election of 1830 and his subsequent political activities in Halifax.