page_title: Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
section_title: Campaigning after the act
hierarchical_section_title: Abolitionism in the United Kingdom / Campaigning after the act
caption_attribution_description: English: The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon (died 1846), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1880 by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Oil on canvas, 1841. 117 in. x 151 in. (2972 mm x 3836 mm). See source website for additional information. Quote from the description at the National Portrait Gallery website: This monumental painting records the 1840 convention of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which was established to promote worldwide abolition. A frail and elderly [Thomas] Clarkson addresses a meeting of over 500 delegates. [...] Haydon later wrote: 'a liberated slave, now a delegate, is looking up to Clarkson with deep interest ... this is the point of interest in the picture, and illustrative of the object in painting it, the African sitting by the intellectual European, in equality and intelligence'. Identified persons in this portrait (based on National Portrait Gallery description) follow. For an image map showing the location of each person in the painting, see image. Abraham Beaumont (1782-1848) Amelia Opie (1769-1853), Novelist and poet; second wife of John Opie Anne Knight (1792-1868) Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron (1792-1860), Wife of Lord Byron B. Godwin, Baptist preacher Charles Edwards Lester, American abolitionist Charles Stovel, Baptist minister and abolitionist Charles Stuart, abolitionist from Jamaica Constantine Richard Moorsom (1792-1861), Vice-Admiral Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor (1792 – 1879) , American abolitionist Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Irish politician David Turnbull Dr Murch Edward Adey Edward Baldwin Edward Barrett, Emancipated slave and abolitionist Edward Smith Edward Steane Elizabeth Pease Eton Galusha, American Baptist minister Francis Augustus Cox (1783-1853), Baptist preacher G.K. Prince George Bennett George Bradburn, American abolitionist George Head Head George Stacey (1787-1857) George Thompson (1804-1878) George William Alexander (1802-1890), Treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society Henry B. Stanton Henry Beckford, Emancipated slave and abolitionist Henry Sterry (1803-1869) Henry Taylor Henry Tuckett Isaac Bass (1782-1855) Isaac Crewdson (1780-1844), Writer Isaac Hodgson (1783-1847) J. Harfield Tredgold J.H. Johnson Jacob Post (1774-1855), Quaker James Carlile (1784-1854), Divine James Dean, American abolitionist James Gillespie Birney (1792-1857), American abolitionist James Mott, American abolitionist James Whitehorne John Angell James (1785-1859), Independent minister John Beaumont (1788-1862) John Birt, American abolitionist John Bowring (1792-1872), Linguist and traveller; Politician and diplomatist John Burnet (1789-1862), Pastor of Mansion House Chapel, Camberwell John Cropper John Ellis (1789-1862), Railway promoter John Howard Hinton (1791-1873), Baptist minister John Keep, American abolitionist John Morrison John Scoble John Steer (1780-1856) John Sturge John T. Norton, American abolitionist John Woodmark Jonathan Backhouse Jonathan Miller, American abolitionist Joseph Cooper (1800-1881) Joseph Eaton (1793-1858) Joseph Ketley Joseph Marriage (1807-1884) Joseph Pease (1772-1846), Reformer Joseph Reynolds (1769-1859) Joseph Sams (1784-1860), Orientalist Joseph Soul Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), Quaker and philanthropist Josiah Conder (1789-1855), Bookseller Josiah Forster (1782-1870) Louis Celeste Lecesne Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), American abolitionist M. L'Instant, Haitian abolitionist M.M. Isambert (sic), French, lawyer and abolitionist Mary Clarkson, Daughter-in-law of Thomas Clarkson Mrs John Beaumont (1790-1853) Mrs Rawson, Sheffield campaigner Mrs Tredgold, British South African Nathaniel Colver, American abolitionist Peter Clare (1781-1851), secretary of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester Professor Adam, American slavery abolitionist Richard Allen (1787-1873) from Dublin Richard Barrett (1784-1855) Richard D. Webb Richard Peek ex Sheriff from Devon Richard Rathbone Richard Robert Madden (1798-1886), Writer Richard Sterry (1785-1865) Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768-1860), Birmingham manufacturer Robert Forster (1792-1871) Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866), Botanist Samuel Bowly (1802-1884), Quaker and anti-slavery agitator Samuel Fox (1781-1868) Samuel Gurney (1786-1856), 'The Banker's Banker'; philanthropist Samuel Jackman Prescod, abolitionist from Barbados Samuel Lucas (1811 – 1865), later editor of the Morning Star Samuel Wheeler (1776-1858) Saxe Bannister (1790-1877), Pamphleteer Sir Edward Baines (1800-1890), Journalist Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Bt (1783-1847) Sir John Jeremie (1795-1841), Colonial judge Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Bt (1786-1845), Philanthropist Stafford Allen (1806-1889) Stephen Lushington (1782-1873), Judge T.M. McDonnell Thomas Binney (Benny) (1798-1874), Nonconformist divine Thomas Bulley Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) Thomas Clarkson, Grandson of Thomas Clarkson Thomas Morgan Thomas Pinches Thomas Price Thomas Scales Thomas Swan W.T. Blair Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), American abolitionist William Allen (1770-1843), Chemist and philanthropist William Beaumont (1790-1869) William Bevan William Boultbee William Brock (1807-1875), Dissenting divine William Dawes, American abolitionist William Dillworth William Fairbank (1771-1846) William Forster (1784-1854), Quaker philanthropist and minister William James William Kay William Knibb (1803-1845), Missionary William Leatham (1783-1842) William Morgan William Smeal (1792-1877) William Tatum (1783-1862) William Taylor William Wilson
context_page_description: Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade. It was part of a wider abolitionism movement in Western Europe and the Americas.
  The buying and selling of slaves was made illegal across the British Empire in 1807, but owning slaves was permitted until it was outlawed completely in 1833, beginning a process where from 1834 slaves became indentured "apprentices" to their former owners until emancipation was achieved for the majority by 1840 and for remaining exceptions by 1843. Former slave owners received formal compensation for their losses from the British government, known as compensated emancipation.
context_section_description: In 1839, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was formed. At the time, the British economy continued to import cotton and other commodities from the U.S. Deep South, which relied on slavery for cotton production, to fuel the spinning and weaving mills in Manchester and other northern cities. The finished goods furnished Britain's low-wage, export, manufacturing economy with surpluses exported to Europe and India. London merchant-banks made loans throughout the supply-chain to planters, factors, ware-housers, carters, shippers, spinners, weavers, and exporters.
  The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society campaigned to outlaw slavery in other countries and pressured the British government to do more to enforce the suppression of the slave trade, by declaring slave traders to be pirates and pursuing them as such. It is in operation today as Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest international human rights organisation.
  On 20 December 1841, the first multilateral treaty for the suppression of the slave trade, the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, was signed in London by the representatives of Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia.
caption: "The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840" by Benjamin Haydon (1841).
exif: {}