Resource Date: 1783
Number: 39
Record Office: The Library of the Religious Society of Friends
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Description:
The first abolitionist committee set up by the Quakers had 35 members including a physician, chemist, tinplate worker, printer, conveyancer, linen-bleacher, weaver, woollen draper, maltser, cutler and surgeon.
You can see an early version of the design that eventually became the campaign logo.
1783 - Cover of minute book of the Meeting for Sufferings Committee
Source Files:
With kind permission of 'The Library of the Religious Society of Friends
Sufferance Committee Cover
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