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- group '195'
Anti-Slavery Society 1823
Britain's anti-slavery reforms can easily be seen as one of the country's key social movement's of the 19th century. Although abolitionist committees are recorded as early as 1787, it was the formation in 1823 of the Anti-Slavery Society (ASS), and its subsequent offshoots that brought about substantial change. The ASS, under its official name, The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Domains, gave talks, petitioned and circulated pamphlets in the hope of rallying the British public together to pressure parliament into a process of abolition. However it was its more radical child body, The Agency Committee (1831), which would strive for full abolition of slavery, and would continue the work of the 1823 society after it closed, considering its aims reached with the implementation of the Slavery Abolition Act (1833) in 1838. Led by Joseph Sturge the new society would become known as the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society (1839).
Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam
1786-1857Politician; MP for several constituencies
Sitter in 4 portraits
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
1800-1859Historian, poet and politician; MP for Calne, Leeds and Edinburgh; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 26 portraits