Read Part One HERE
In this post I will focus on a woman named Mary Hornchurch Lloyd. She lived from 1795 - 1865. She was born in Falmouth, UK. Her mother was a minister in the Society of Friends and her father was a cooper. Mary's mother died whilst she was a child and she quickly became the carer for her father until he died in 1818. She married Samuel Lloyd in 1823.
In that same year, the Anti-Slavery Society was founded, of which she became a member. Other members were Jane Smeall Wigham, Elizabeth Pease, Elizabeth Heyrick, Anne Knight, William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson.
Lucy Townsend founded the first Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Birmingham, West Midlands in 1825. Mary and Lucy were the first joint secretaries of - what was at first called the Birmingham and West Bromwhich Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves,- also known as Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves, and around 1830 it became the Female Society for Birmingham.
By 1831 there were over seventy similar anti-slavery organisations. Lucy's organisation was publicised in America and beame a role model for similar organisations in the US.
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