Women And Abolition

Question 1

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 1

Condemned slavery as an integral part of her advocacy of the ‘rights of man’ where she made frequent analogies between the position of women and slaves
1787-1792 date of publication of the ‘vindication of the rights of women’

Question 2

Hannah More

Answer 2

Educator, writer and social reformer known for her writings on abolition and for encouraging women to join anti-slavery movements
Member of the blue stockings who were strangled opposed to the slave trade
1788 she wrote ‘slavery, a poem’ to coincide with wilberforce’s parliamentary campaign for abolition which dramatically described a mistreated, enslaved female separated from her children

Question 3

Phylis Wheatley

Answer 3

First black women to have a book published
Born in Africa but was kidnapped and take to the USA
1789 one of her poems was published in London

Question 4

Mary Burkett cadd

Answer 4

Dublin quaker who in 1792 published a poem on the African slave trade and urged women to boycott slave produced goods e.g the sugar boycotts in 1791