Anti-Slavery Society in England

ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

The Anniversary Meeting of this Society was held on Saturday at 12 o’clock, in Exeter Hall, which was crowded in every part to excess.  Lord Suffield moved that their old and tried friend, James Stephen, Esq. be requested to take the Chair.

Lord Suffield said, the object of this Society was, by holding meetings, issuing tracts, and by every other practicable means, to inform the people of England, high and low …… to make them acquainted with not only what slavery is, but what it necessarily must be, so long as it continued.  He made a memorandum of ten points ………………………………………………..

                                           (Liberator, August 4, 1832, pg 1)