Women in the ST

Question 1

Mary Wollenstonecraft

Answer 1

• Condemned slavery as in integral part of her advocacy for the ‘Rights of Man’
• Made frequent analogies between the positions of women and slaves

Question 2

Hannah Moore

Answer 2

• Known for her writings on abolition and for encouraging women to the anti-slavery campaign
• Met with John Newton of the Clapham sect in 1787
• Wrote ‘Slavery, a poem’ in 1788

Question 3

Phyllis Wheatley

Answer 3

• First Black women in Britain to have a book published
• Born in Africa, taken to the USA at 8 years old
• Book published in 1773, spoke about the shock of the experience of being enslaved
• Spoke out against slavey at public meetings

Question 4

Mary Burkett Card

Answer 4

• Dublin Quaker, published ‘A poem on the African Slave Trade’ in 1792
• Urges other women to boycott slave produced goods

Question 5

Ann Yearsley

Answer 5

• Successful WC writer
• Celebrated anti-slavery poem on the inhumanity of it in 1788

Question 6

Amelie Opie

Answer 6

• ‘The Negro Boy’s tale’ poem addressed the children was published in 1802
• Wrote on humanitarian issues in a populist style

Question 7

Women in general

Answer 7

• Became most involved in abolition in Manchester, where local anti-slavery societies were most radical in political competition

Question 8

Manchester abolitionists

Answer 8

• Accepted that women formed part of the anti-slavery group, but did not appeal for women’s support
• Echoed conservative, evangelical Christians in stressing women’s feminine qualities