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For possible
interest and/or knowledge of all generally, and for the carto-philateltic
community specifically, all six new postage stamps in commemoration of the above
subject were illustrated (enlarged) in colour with a journalist's notes (?) -
under title 'Saviours of the slaves : the stories behind six stamps that
celebrate abolitionists' - in 'The Independent' (London), Friday, 23 March
2007. Each stamp has the words 'Abolition of the slave trade
1807'.
One of the two 1st
Class value stamps depicts a b&w portrait of Olaudah Equiano (1745-97)
superimposed on a mono(purple)-coloured 18th-century map of the Atlantic
Ocean framed by the American and the European & African
continents; Latin language, but title etc. obscured or deleted - doubtless the
Royal Mail publicity machine reveals the facts or someone can 'reveal
all'?
Francis
Herbert
