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22
Mei
1787

Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded

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📅 22 Mei 1787 📍

A cross-confessional abolitionist committee was founded in London. Its campaign used petitions, print, testimony and consumer organizing. It helped build public pressure, while enslaved people’s resistance and testimony remained central to the wider struggle. Abolitionist politics could challenge the trade while still leaving imperial authority and racial hierarchy largely intact.

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Granville Sharp

Thomas Clarkson

Olaudah Equiano

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Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade