Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consuming portraits. A new socius : Josiah Wedgwood and Rudolph Ackermann -- Miniatures : Richard Cosway and John Boydell -- Facing history -- Ch. 4. …”

“…Within five years, more than 300,000 Britons were boycotting the chief slave-made product, sugar, and London"s smart set was sporting antislavery badges created by Josiah Wedgwood. This crusade was spearheaded by a striking array of personalities, among them Olaudah Equiano, an ex-slave whose memoir made him famous; John Newton, a former slave ship captain who wrote "Amazing Grace"; and Thomas Clarkson, a pioneering investigative journalist who worked for fifty years to see the day when a slave whip and chains were formally buried in a Jamaican churchyard…”

“…Following a model pioneered by Josiah Wedgwood during Great Britain's eighteenth-century industrial revolution, successful American manufacturers closely collaborated with retailers to sort out consumer priorities and tailored their products accordingly…”