Sarah Parker Remond & Elizabeth Dawson

Wakefield civic society

The Wakefield anti-slavery association was established 12th January 1860 at the corn exchange after a lecture delivered by Sarah Parker Remond, renowned transatlantic abolitionist, campaigner of suffrage, human rights activist & physician.  This event was enabled by the Wakefield ladies' anti-slavery society constituted in 1857.

Elizabeth Dawson 1829-1894 was the secretary of both organisations

2021

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