Breaking The Chains

Royal Mail Commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807 - Royal Mail

Royal Mail commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which led to The Abolition the Slave Trade, with a series of six stamps.

They combine contemporary portraits of key individuals from the Abolition movement, set against backgrounds linked to their work. Eighteenth-century Britain dominated the transatlantic slave trade.

Ò¢ââ¬a¬Ã¢ 1st: William Wilberforce - Member of Parliament for Hull, was the parliamentary leader of the Abolitionists and is depicted against an anti-slavery poster.
Ò¢ââ¬a¬Ã¢ 1st Olaudah Equiano - possibly the most prominent campaigner outside of the parliamentary group. A former slave, he brought the plight of kidnapped Africans to public attention through his highly successful autobiography The Interesting Narrative.
Ò¢ââ¬a¬Ã¢ 50p: Granville Sharp - first Chairman of the Abolitionist movement and campaigned through his writings and the courts to have slavery made illegal in the UK.
Ò¢ââ¬a¬Ã¢ 50p: Thomas Clarkson - travelled the country to collect evidence of the inhumanity of the trade for the abolition committee. Depicted against a contemporary plan of the way slaves were accommodated on the slave ships.
Ò¢ââ¬a¬Ã¢ 72p: Hannah More - probably the most prominent female abolitionist, promoting the anti-slavery message through her poems, plays and religious writings.
Ò¢ââ¬a¬Ã¢ 72p: Ignatius Sancho - born on a slave ship he later achieved his freedom and became a well-respected trader in London. He was the first African writer to be published in England.

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