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In this post I will continue to share the story of a woman named Sarah Parker Remond. She lived from 1826 - 1894. As a good speaker and fundraiser, Sarah was invited to take the cause of the American abolitionists to Britain. Accompanied by the Reverend Samuel May Jr, she sailed from Boston for Liverpool on 28 December 1858, on the steamer Arahia.
On 21 January, 1859, at the Tuckerman Istitute, Sarah gave her first anti-slavery lecture in England. Her second lecture took place a few days later. During these speeches, she spoke eloquently of the inhumane treatment of slaves in the Unites States, her stories shocking many of her listeners. She also described the discrimination endured by free blacks throughout the United States.
For the next three years, Sarah lectured to crowds in several town throughout the British Isles, raising large sums for the anti-slavery cause. Between 1859 and 1861, she gave more than 45 lectures in England, Scotland and Ireland.
In 1860, at the invitation of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, she gave a lecture in Edinburgh that was "crowded to the door by a most respectable audience, number upwards of 2000," whose consciences she awakened to a deepened "abhorrence to the sin of slavery."
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