COMMENTARY
Some 230 years ago, renowned china maker Josiah Wedgwood took his worldview into his china-making. He designed a medallion featuring an African in chains. Surrounding him are the words, "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Fashionable British women who supported abolition wore the medallions as brooches. The jewelry started many a conversation about the morality of slavery — and helped, in a small way, to end the British slave trade.
Wedgwood’s medallions, which are now priceless museum pieces, came to mind when I heard of a pair of modern-day businesswomen who, like Wedgwood, are putting their worldview to work in the jewelry-making business.