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Henry Brougham
Played a role in persuading the House of Lords to pass the 1832 Reform Act. He was also responsible for the passing of the 1833 Anti-Slavery Act.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbrougham.htm
Charles Fox
Foreign secretary that made a speech in favour of the Abolition of the Slave Trade bill in the House of Commons on 10th June 1806.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRfox.htm
William Wilberforce
In 1787, founded the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Also led the campaign in the House of Commons, which tried to persuade the House of Lords to stop slavery.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwilberforce.htm
Richard Sheridan
Member of the Whigs that supported the House of Commons on the slave trade campaign.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRsheridan.htm
Josiah Wedgwood
Founder of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwedgwood.htm
Thomas Clarkson
Published the book titled History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Also founded the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REclarkson.htm
Granville Sharp
Founder of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In 1787 he published his pamphlet, A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsharp.htm
Thomas Fowell Buxton
Founded the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery. Also became the leader of the campaign in the House of Commons, 1825.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REfowell.htm
Anti-Slavery Movement
Formed by Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson, which induded to the creation of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Influential figures such as John Wesley and Josiah Wedgwood also gave their support to the campaign.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REantislavery.htm
Joseph Gurney
Foreigner that campaigned against slavery, that was in favor of world peace and the abolition of capital punishment.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAgurney.htm
Edward Pease
Member of the Society of Friends that supported the Anti-Slavery movement.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RApease.htm
Elizabeth Heyrick
Author that published in 1824, a pamphlet titled Immediate not Gradual Abolition, which argued in favour of the immediate emancipation of the slaves in the British colonies.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REheyrick.htm
Mary Lloyd
Brief entry about Mary Lloyd, née Honeychurch, born at Falmouth in 1795.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RElloyd.htm
Elizabeth Pease
Published a pamphlet titled Address to the Women of Great Britain, where they urged women to organise female anti-slavery associations.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REpeaseE.htm
Anne Knight
Known for starting a campaign advocating equal rights for women. She was also involved in the Quaker attempt to end slavery.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wknight.htm
Jane Smeal
Helped women to form their own anti-slavery movements. Founded the Glasgow Ladies Emancipation Society.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsmeal.htm
Olaudah Equiano
Slave that purchased his freedom, and worked in the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Sequiano.htm
Joseph Cinque
Slave that was part of the crew of the ship Amistad, that led a revolt and killed the captain. The sailors were captured, were judged, and found innocent because they were illegally enslaved.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Scinque.htm
Henry Bibb
Slave that escaped and became an African American activist. Also worked for the Liberty Party in Michigan, and later published his autobiography: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Sbibb.htm
Harriet Jacobs
Born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina in 1813. Twenty one years later, escaped to Philadelphia. She published later her autobiography in the New York Tribune, which shocked the American public.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Sjacobs.htm
Women's Anti-Slavery Societies
New organizations that were formed to campaign against slavery. Site provides historical data and facts.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REslaveryW.htm
1807 Anti-Slave Trade Act
Law that forced british captains to pay a £100 for every slave found on board.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lslavery07.htm
1833 Abolition of Slavery Act
Law that gave slaves in the British Empire their freedom. Also provides information about the Anti-Slavery Society that was formed in 1823.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lslavery33.htm
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