BRITS AT THEIR BEST: Freedom – THE FELLOWSHIP: ABOLISHING SLAVERY Part Six British History Copyright 2007 David Abbott and Catherine Glass

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Abolishing Slavery

Man reading

The slaves in the West Indies learned to read, and
their reading inspired their efforts to become free.
They became a vital part of the fellowship to abolish slavery.

The Fellowship
Abolishing Slavery at Last

Part One
Horror and Love

12 gifts the London Eye

The file on the abolition of slavery has been rewritten. It's terrific just because the men and women who helped to abolish slavery were an amazing group of friends. The file has become one part of the ebook called 12 Gifts from Great Britain. You can read the ebook by paying a mere 75 pence (pound sterling) at Kindle UK or .99 cents at Kindle USA.

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Abolishing Slavery
THE FELLOWSHIP

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Abolishing Slavery 1
Horror and Love

Abolishing Slavery 2
Sublime Allies

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Abolishing Slavery 3
Powerful Methods

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Abolishing Slavery 4
Creating a new world

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Abolishing Slavery 5
At Sea

Man reading

Abolishing Slavery 6
Ending Slavery at Last

Love of freedom inspires
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LOVING FREEDOM

THE FREEDOM NETWORK

Slave hanging on gallows

"A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows", by William Blake,
was published in an anti-slavery book and frequently reproduced by abolitionists.

Hochschild's book is the source of the quotes we have used. His description of the slave insurrections is particularly fine.

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The National Portrait Gallery's online exhibition of Portraits, People & Abolition is HERE

Britain's Anti-Slavery International is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and works exclusively against slavery and related abuses today.

At Bowness on Windermere, a former slave by the name of Rasselas Belfield is memorialized in a momument -
A Slave by birth I left my native Land
And found my Freedom on Britannia’s Strand:
Blest Isle! Thou Glory of the Wise and Free,
Thy Touch alone unbinds the Chains of Slavery.