![]() In this portrait of him, his active involvement in the anti-slavery movement was symbolised by the slave chains on the table beside him. He was a member of the Committee of the Bristol Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Society. ![]() The Reverend Thomas Roberts, pastor of the Baptist church in Pithay, Bristol and then in King Street, was deeply involved. Other people who lived in Bristol, especially Nonconformist churchmen (that is, from religious bodies which had split from the Church of England), were involved in the emancipation campaign. They also gathered signatures for petitions to Parliament, asking for freedom for the slaves. The Committee raised money for the main campaigning body, the London Anti-Slavery Society. It also included seven other churchmen and thirty-one gentlemen, including members of the Fry family of Fry’s Chocolate. Thomas Biddulph, vicar of St Matthew’s Church in Cotham, Bristol, was a member of the Committee of this Bristol Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Society. The meeting agreed to work for the ‘mitigation and eventual abolition of slavery in British colonies’ (meaning to make slavery less severe and eventually to end it). It was addressed by the anti-slavery activist, Thomas Clarkson, who was touring the country to raise support for the campaign. The campaigners for emancipation called a public meeting. ![]() A committee was set up in the city of Bristol in 1823 to campaign for Emancipation (the actual freeing of enslaved Africans). ![]()
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