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Sturge, Joseph, 1793-1859
Joseph Sturge
Joseph Sturge
(2 August 1793 – 14 May 1859) was an English
Quaker
,
abolitionist
and activist. He founded the
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
(now
Anti-Slavery International
). He worked throughout his life in
Radical
political actions supporting
pacifism
,
working-class
rights, and the universal
emancipation
of
slave
s. In the late 1830s, he published two books about the apprenticeship system in Jamaica, which helped persuade the British Parliament to adopt an earlier full emancipation date. In Jamaica, Sturge also helped found
Free Villages
with the
Baptists
, to provide living quarters for freed slaves; one was named
Sturge Town
in his memory.
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The West Indies in 1837 :
being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Monsterrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, and Jamaica ; undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the actual condition of the negro population of those islands /
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Sturge
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Joseph
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1793
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1859
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1838.
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Horrors of the negro apprenticeship system in the British colonies :
as detailed at the public breaksfast given by the citizens of Birmingham, to Mr. Joseph Sturge, on returning from his benevolent mission to the West Indies. June 6, 1837.
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Birmingham (England)
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1837.
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Physical description: 20 p ; 23 cm.
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The suffrage :
an appeal to the middle classes /
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National Complete Suffrage Union (Great Britain)
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1842.
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A reply to "Letters to Joseph Sturge, Esq. by William Alers Hankey, Esq." /
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1838.
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Reconciliation between the middle and labouring classes.
Re-printed from The Nonconformist
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Published / Created
1842
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