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Anna Richardson (abolitionist)

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by establishing teetotal refreshment rooms with her husband. She died on 27 March 1892 and is buried Elswick cemetery. Her Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry esteems her as "a serious and religious woman, with a lifelong commitment to philanthropy and reform, and considerable
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in West Yorkshire between 1817 and 1819. In 1833 she married a fellow pupil of the school, Henry Richardson, a grocer of Quaker stock, and settled with him in Newcastle. Childless, both pursued social causes of the time, notably the promulgation of religion, education of the poor,
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of goods produced as a result of slave labour, forming the Newcastle Ladies' Free Produce Association in 1846. She encouraged other Quaker groups to establish similar associations, including sponsoring an 1850 speaking tour by
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to England, Scotland and Ireland, which led to at least 26 groups forming by the end of that year. Richardson used her literary and organisational skills to edit and publish a journal,
23:; 5 January 1806 – 27 March 1892) was an English Quaker slavery abolitionist and peace campaigner, and a writer and editor of anti-slavery texts and journals, based in 350: 114:
Richardson was active at a local level, involving herself in Bible Societies and missions aimed at the working population of Newcastle. She served as a
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family of Esther Atkins (née Millard) and her husband Samuel, who died in 1821. She is recorded as being educated at the Society of Friends'
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Midgley, Clare. "Richardson , Anna (1806–1892), slavery abolitionist and peace campaigner".
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Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
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Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children's Abolitionist Literature
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peace groups; from 1844 to 1857 she edited a magazine aimed at children,
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Index

Newcastle Upon Tyne
Chipping Norton
Quaker
Ackworth School
abolition
temperance
International Peace Congress
Paris
Elihu Burritt
free produce movement
boycott
Henry Highland Garnet
Frederick Douglass
prison visitor
temperance movement




Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/50724
UK public library membership
Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
ISBN
9781501706622
Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children's Abolitionist Literature
ISBN
9780275979515
"Local History - There's Death in the Pot!"

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