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John Wesley (1703 â€...
John Wesley was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Under his direction, Methodists became leaders in many areas of social justice including prison reform and the abolition of the slave trade. In 1736-7 Wesley visited the then British colony of Georgia in North America where he came into cont...
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Granville Sharp (173...
Granville Sharp was a civil servant and political reformer. He was one of the 12 men who, in 1787, formed the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and was the first chairman of the society. His interest in the issue however went back much further. At a time when most abolitioni...
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Phyllis Wheatley (17...
Phyllis Wheatley was a talented poet and became the first black woman in Britain to have a book published. Phyllis Wheatley had been born in Africa but kidnapped and taken to the USA at just eight years old. In the USA she became well known as a poet and she visited England in 1772. Her book of poem...
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Ignatius Sancho (c17...
Ignatius Sancho was a composer, actor and writer. He was a neighbour and friend of Ottobah Cugoano. Sancho was born in 1729 on a slave ship and spent the first two years of his life enslaved in Grenada. His mother died when he was very young and his father killed himself rather than become enslaved....
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John Newton (1725 â€...
John Newton was an Anglican clergyman and former slave ship master. It took him a long time to speak out against the slave trade but he had an influence on many young evangelical Christians, particularly William Wilberforce. At just 11 years old Newton went to sea with his father. In 1743 he was on ...
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James Stephen (1758 ...
James Stephen was born in Poole, Dorset and spent part of his childhood in a debtors' prison when his father got into financial trouble. Despite this he became a newspaper reporter and a brilliant Lawyer. As a young man he was described as rough and bad-tempered. At one point he got himself involved...
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Quobna Ottabah Cugoa...
We have no picture of Quobna Ottabah Cugoano. He was a black anti-slavery campaigner who worked alongside Equiano. He was born in 1757 in the part of Africa now called Ghana. In 1770 he was kidnapped and taken to the West Indies, where he spent nearly a year in slavery on Grenada. Cugoano was brough...
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Baron Grenville: (17...
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, was Prime Minister at the time the 1807 act to abolish the slave trade was passed. His father had also been Prime Minister and Grenville was educated at Eton and Christchurch Oxford. He was repsected and reliable but aloof and cold. However, he sincer...
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Thomas Foxwell Buxto...
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton was born in Essex in 1786 . He was privately educated and went to Trinty College Dublin. He became a close friend of Joseph Gurney after his mother (a Quaker) introduced him to the Norfolk based family. He started to attend Quaker meetings with the Gurney family and married ...
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Mary Prince
We do not have a picture of Mary Prince. Mary Prince was born in 1788 to a slave family in Bermuda. She was sold to a number of brutal owners and suffered from terrible treatment. Prince ended up in Antigua belonging to the Wood family. In December 1826, she married Daniel James, a former slave who ...
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John Clarkson
John Clarkson, the younger brother of Thomas Clarkson, also played a significant part in the history of the anti-slavery movement. He was born in Wisbech in 1764 and joined the navy at 13 years of age as a midshipman. He fought in the West Indies during the American War of Independence. Perhaps as a...
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Zachary Macaulay (17...
Zachary Macaulay was born in Inveraray Scotland the son of a Minister of the Church of Scotland. He only had a basic education but taught himself the Classics, Latin and Greek. He worked at a merchant counting house in Glasgow. At only 16 years of age he went to Jamaica. He worked for eight years on...
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