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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… Anna Laetitia Barbauld and William Godwin. As an abolitionist ( A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade , 1788) and pacifist, Williams expressed sympathy in her works for the American Revolution ( An American Tale , …

Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]

… to poor women and children each year at Christmas; and Edward Colston, the Bristol merchant whose involvement in the slave trade has aroused considerable criticism, was nevertheless a celebrated philanthropist to his town. Wills and private … society – not always in incompatible ways. Josiah Wedgewood, for example, manufactured and gave his name to anti-slavery cameos that he then gave away in large quantities to sympathisers such as Thomas Clarkson, who in turn gave them …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]

… those institutions of society which should condemn me to the necessity of twelve hours daily toil, would make my soul a slave, and sink the rational being in the mere animal. It is a mockery of our fellow creatures’ wrongs to call them equal … human relationships: the exploitation of workers and children for factory production, that of women through marriage, of slaves through the plantation system, of children through consumerism. As the nation was writing itself at the dawn of … magic. Hence for state-policy we have state-craft and the mockery of expedience; for the fine arts a marketable trade; for philosophy a jargon of materialism, and the study of nature conducted on such principles as to place it in …

Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]

… culture whose distinctiveness lay largely in the active presence of a mercantile class engaged in the trans-Atlantic trade (notably in tobacco and slaves). This context was familiar to Adam Smith, who had been among the founders of Glasgow’s Literary Society in 1752 …

Parish churches [ Institutions ]

… standing. At Holy Trinity, Hull, on 12 February 1792, vicar Thomas Clarke reminded his flock of the injustices of the slave trade, arguing that they had to do to others as they wanted to be done to themselves, regardless of setting or colour. 22 … of the High Sheriff (Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by John White, 1713); Thomas Clarke, A Sermon on the Injustice of the Slave Trade (Hull: Printed by J. Ferraby, 1792). 23 . Frank Albert Abbott, The body or the soul? Religion and Culture in …

Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]

… her fight against the French Revolution –, be they the alleviation of poverty or the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. 33   She thus sketched out a different model of female sociability based on usefulness, a sort of useful …