Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded (a precursor to the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , composed chiefly of Quakers ) and The Case of our Fellow Creatures, the Oppressed Africans was published.

The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in London, by Granville Sharp , Thomas Clarkson , and ten more, of whom nine were Quakers .

A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers in this and the previous month noted a growing attention in many not of our religious society to the subject of Negro slavery.