The Quaker Reading Society and 'Slave Narratives'

The records of the Quaker Reading Society identify that its members purchased a number of books that are often referred to as ‘slave narratives’. T...

The Sturge House on Wheeley's Road

Image: Calthorpe Estate Drawing. Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham. In 1822 Sturge purchased la...

The Sturge Statue

Image: date unknown. (click on zoomify to enlarge).

Town Hall Antislavery Meeting, 1838

Image: Report of The Birmingham Antislavery Society For more details on Birmingham antislavery, follow the link below to 'Campaigning for Soci...

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

The title page of an original 1852 edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.

'Uncle Toms Cabin' (1852): Eliza's Escape.

Image from an original 1852 edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. Eliza escapes with her child across a frozen river from slave c...

Unveiling of Sturge Statue, 1862

Image: Engraving of statue published in the 'Illustrated Times'(1862). Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in ...

We are Brethren

‘We are Brethren’ token struck at Soho Mint, Handsworth, issued for use in Sierra Leone in 1814 which also commemorated the parlimentary abolition ...

William Morgan

According to 'Civilising Subjects' (2002) by Catherine Hall, William Morgan, "trained as a solicitor, and practiced in Birmingham. From an early ag...