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Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835) Ohio Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835) Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women (founded 1837) New York State Anti-Slavery Society, first meeting held in Utica October 19, 1836 (History of slavery in New York (state)) Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1838)
The society asked him to bring the matter of slavery to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He petitioned the U.S. Congress in 1790 to ban slavery. [4] [5] The Pennsylvania Abolition (or Abolitionist) Society, which had members and leaders of both races, became a model for anti-slavery organizations in other states during the antebellum years.
The Stoics produced the first condemnation of slavery recorded in history. [19] During the 8th and the 7th centuries BC, in the course of the two Messenian Wars, the Spartans reduced an entire population to a pseudo-slavery called helotry. [293] According to Herodotus (IX, 28–29), helots were seven times as numerous as Spartans.
She was born into a Quaker family in Essex and took active roles in the anti-slavery campaigns. Knight formed the Chelmsford Female Anti-Slavery Society. She also toured France, giving lectures on the immorality of slavery. [citation needed] The Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves was founded in Birmingham, England, on 8 ...
A postal campaign in 1835 by the American Anti-Slavery Society (AA-SS) – founded by African-American Presbyterian clergyman Theodore S. Wright – sent bundles of tracts and newspapers (over 100,000) to prominent clerical, legal, and political figures throughout the whole country, and culminated in massive demonstrations throughout the North ...
The contradiction between the claim that "all men are created equal" and the existence of American slavery, including Thomas Jefferson himself owning slaves, attracted comment when the Declaration of Independence was first published. Before final approval, Congress, having made a few alterations to some of the wording, also deleted nearly a ...
1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention. [1] Move your cursor to identify delegates or click the icon to enlarge. The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840. [2] It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge.