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Société pour l’adoucissement et l’abolition graduelle de l’esclavage dans les possessions anglaises – Séance annuelle du 30 avril 1825
Report
Paris
Revue Protestante
1825
French
Abolition Campaigns
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
British Society Gradual Abolition Slavery Annual Meeting 1825 French Report Revue Protestante Bowdich
This report on the 1825 annual meeting of the British Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery was printed in the Protestant Review. The meeting in London had been attended by Sarah Bowdich, a natural scientist and African traveller. She had many contacts in France, and this article is based on her correspondence with the Review. She describes the attendence at the meeting, and the speeches by politicians such as Brougham, Denham and O'Connell. She is particularly critical of O'Connell's attempt to draw a parallel between colonial slavery and the situation of Catholics in Ireland, describing it as "an inconvenient and false comparison" (29).
Revue Protestante, vol. II.I (July 1825), 26-30. The proceedings of this second annual meeting of the British Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery were published as a pamphlet, and in the Anti-Slavery Reporter, no.1 (June 1825).