1787 CE
National organization of the campaign against the slave trade
British Empire · Resistance & colonized agency
Quaker and Anglican activists formed the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, coordinating petitions, evidence, publications, and boycotts. The metropolitan campaign also depended on Black testimony and the continuing resistance of enslaved people
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- 2026-09-23
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