Anti-Slavery Society

Connections

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Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle , Methodist secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon...
Family and Intimate relationships Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
MCH 's aunt Lucy Townsend was a zealous participant in anti-slavery campaigning at a time when major associations such as the Anti-Slavery Society showed hostility towards the participation of women. (Women's anti-slavery societies tended to...
Occupation Mary Prince
MP went to work for the family of Thomas Pringle , secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society .
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
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politics Mary Prince
MP , on her own in London, came to the attention of the Anti-Slavery Society through the Moravian Missionaries, from whom she had sought help.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
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politics Mary Prince
The Anti-Slavery Society submitted a petition to parliament on MP 's behalf, for her freedom.
Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, 1987, pp. 1-41.
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politics Kathleen E. Innes
Speakers included J. H. Harris , a Quaker and member of the Anti-Slavery Society , Charles Roberts , and Isobel McGregor Ross , who with her husband William McGregor Ross , former Director of Public...
Publishing Sarah Stickney Ellis
After this and a few other poorly selling ventures in privately printed material, SSE followed the advice of a friend and contacted the publisher Thomas Pringle , secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society , who offered...
Reception Mary Prince
The aftermath dragged on. Thomas Pringle of the Anti-Slavery Society , who had published MP 's work, sued Thomas Cadell , London publisher of Blackwood's; the man who claimed ownership of MP sued Pringle for libel.
Textual Features Elizabeth Heyrick
Men have done nothing, says EH , in the five years since they undertook to ameliorate slavery (that is, since the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery was founded in 1823). The...
Textual Production Mary Prince
The Anti-Slavery Society published The History of Mary Prince , a West Indian Slave. Related by herself, dictated by Prince at her own suggestion to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie) .
The title was chosen...
Wealth and Poverty Hannah More
HM left more than one-third of her estate—over £10,000—to charity. She left money locally (to pensioners, and the poor, and Female Clubs), and to institutions (both nationally and to Bristol branches) like the Anti-Slavery Society

Timeline

1823: The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual...

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1823

The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery was formed in London, with the non-confrontational agenda that its name implies.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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8 April 1825: Lucy Townsend hosted a meeting at which the...

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8 April 1825

Lucy Townsend hosted a meeting at which the first British slavery association for women was formed, the Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves (which later changed its name to the Female Society for Birmingham

15 May 1830: The Anti-Slavery Society in London accepted...

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15 May 1830

The Anti-Slavery Society in London accepted an amendment switching its aims from gradual to immediate abolition.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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27 December 1831: A major slave uprising, the Baptist War,...

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27 December 1831

A major slave uprising, the Baptist War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...

17 September 1832: The first number appeared of The Tourist:...

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17 September 1832

The first number appeared of The Tourist: a Literary and Anti-Slavery Journal, published at London under the auspices of the Anti-Slavery Society .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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