Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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Later 1783
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.
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.