Autograph Letter signed to Revd Algernon WELLS (John Harfield, 1798-1842, English Chemist in the Cape Colony in Africa, Anti-Slavery Campaigner)

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(1793-1850 Congregationalist Minister) saying that he is "directed by the Committee of the B & F Anti-Slavery Society to transmit to you the accompanying Resolutions as a reply to the communication of the Committee of the Congregational Union of England and Wales received from you. with a request that you will be pleased to lay them before that Committee.", on the headed paper of the "British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society for the Abolition of Slavery & the Slave Trade Throughout the World" with a vignette of a slave wearing a loincloth with his hands chained and the slogan "Am I not a Man and a Brother", 1 side 4to., 27 New Bond Street, London, 8th December 1840 He held a number of voluntary roles including Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The suburb of Cape Town called Harfield drew its name from Tredgold's middle name. The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12 23 June 1840. It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge. Tredgold and his wife Elizabeth attended the Convention which attracted delegates from America, France, Haiti, Australia, Ireland, Jamaica and Barbados. It had been a matter of much debate as to where the female delegates would sit. Eventually the organisers had insisted that they sat with all the other women and male observers. The exclusion of women in this way had important ramifications for the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Seller Inventory # 38798

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