Abolitionists, Opposing Slavery -People who protested against slavery and the slave trade, and wanted to end it were known as abolitionists


OPPOSING SLAVERY

BISHOP ASBURY

LUCY TOWNSEND

WILLIAM LEGGE

MARY LLOYD

ALBERT GRONNIOSAW

Opposing Slavery
People who protested against slavery and the slave trade, and wanted to end it were known as abolitionists. Sandwell and the Midlands were home to a number of important abolitionists.
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Bishop Asbury (1745-1816)
Transatlantic abolitionist
Francis Asbury grew up in Great Barr. All Saints Church in West Bromwich provided Francis Asbury with his earliest theological training.

The local preacher became the first bishop of American Methodism. African Americans like Henry Hoosier and Richard Allen, founder of the first Bethel African Episcopal Methodist Church, worked with him. Asbury opposed separate worship by white people, and petitioned
George Washington to abolish slavery.
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Albert Gronniosaw (1725- 1786)
Black Abolitionist & First Black Biographer
Gronniosaw was an African Prince from Bornu. Freed in New York, he joined the British Army, fought the French, and traded as a Caribbean merchant. Gronniosaw was robbed of his savings in Southampton. He married a poor white silk weaver, and they left London and lived in the 'true' Christian community of Kidderminster.
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Lucy Townsend, Mary Lloyd and
Mary Anne Galton
Women Abolitionists
By 1787-8 ten percent of Abolitionist Society funds came from women. Women championed the runaway, Mary Prince, & the boycott of slave produce, and the immediate abolition of slavery. Lucy Townsend and Mary Lloyd founded the West Bromwich, Birmingham and District Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves in 1825. Others followed.

Samuel Galton's daughters boycotted sugar from slave plantations. Mary Anne Galton (1778-1856) and her sister were committee members of the West Bromwich, Birmingham and District Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves.
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Mary Lloyd

William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801)
An aristocrat abolitionist
Sandwell Hall was the name of one of the homes of the Earl of Dartmouth. The countess of Huntingdon introduced Dartmouth to Anti slavery activity amongst the aristocracy who were Methodists. The Countess of Huntingdon supported the publication of the most famous slave narrative, that of Olaudah Equaino, the slave who freed himself.
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			Our Abolitionists Thinking about our Abolitionists • Lucy Townsend • Francis Asbury • Albert Gronnisaw


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