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Cover illustrations: Color block prints and text adapted from The Anti-Slavery Alphabet, written and presented by Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend and published by the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1846 (top) and antislavery medallion design by Josiah Wedgwood, 1787, for the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (bottom).