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Working Against Slavery
The Female Anti-Slavery Societies offered subscription membership to women They were recruited through trade, church or family networks One of the methods used to form their networks and to disseminate their tracts, leaflets and prayers was to make and distribute work bags which formed part of the subscription The strategy was successful because the societies, following on from the first two in Birmingham and Sheffield, spread throughout Britain and Ireland This long lasting network was a key factor in changing public opinion against slave labour The workbags were made from material other than slave grown cotton The bag shown below belonged to Rachel Howard 1803-1892 and is held in the library of Friends House There is a record that the Liverpool Ladies Anti-Slavery Society sent workbags obtained from the Female Society for Birmingham to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York Warwickshire Monthly Meeting, as part of their 'Working Against Slavery' exhibition, have produced a modern form of the work bag with the logo and contact details for the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
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