World Anti-Slavery Convention

The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon

World Anti-Slavery Convention var en internationell konferens för avskaffandet av slaveriet, som hölls i Exeter Hall i London 12-23 juni 1840. [1]

Konferensen arrangerades av British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) på initiativ av kväkaren Joseph Sturge. Det var världens första internationella abolitionistkonferens och samlade den amerikanska och brittiska abolitioniströrelsen, samt delegater från Frankrike, Sydafrika och Haiti.

Konferensen är också känd för att diskrimineringen av kvinnliga deltagare resulterade i Seneca Falls Convention och inledningen av den amerikanska kvinnorörelsen.

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  1. ^ Maynard, Douglas H. (1960). "The World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 47 (3): 452–471. JSTOR 1888877.

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The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon (died 1846), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1880 by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Oil on canvas, 1841. 117 in. x 151 in. (2972 mm x 3836 mm). See source website for additional information.

Quote from the description at the National Portrait Gallery website:

This monumental painting records the 1840 convention of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which was established to promote worldwide abolition. A frail and elderly [Thomas] Clarkson addresses a meeting of over 500 delegates. [...] Haydon later wrote: 'a liberated slave, now a delegate, is looking up to Clarkson with deep interest ... this is the point of interest in the picture, and illustrative of the object in painting it, the African sitting by the intellectual European, in equality and intelligence'.

Identified persons in this portrait (based on National Portrait Gallery description) follow. For an image map showing the location of each person in the painting, see image.