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An influential early anti-slavery society in Britain, this organization helped turn public pressure into a sustained campaign against slavery in the British Empire. Founded in 1823, it is commonly remembered as the Anti-Slavery Society and was part of the movement that led to emancipation in 1838.
by Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions
Founded in London on 31 January 1823, the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions was created to campaign for the end of slavery in the British Empire. It is often referred to more simply as the Anti-Slavery Society.
The society emerged after the British slave trade had already been outlawed in 1807, when abolitionists shifted their focus from ending the trade to ending slavery itself. It published reports and pamphlets, organized meetings, and helped build public and parliamentary pressure for reform.
Its central aim was largely realized through the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, with emancipation in the British Empire completed in 1838. That same year it was briefly known as the London Anti-Slavery Society, and in 1839 a successor body, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, was formed to continue the broader fight against slavery worldwide.