The Glasgow Emancipation Society was a group of Glaswegians who formed an anti-

slavery Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

abolitionist group in 1833. Prominent members included James McCune Smith, John Murray, William Smeal,

Ralph Wardlaw Ralph Wardlaw (22 December 1779 – 15 December 1853) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and writer. He was known as an abolitionist campaigner. Life He was born in Dalkeith, just south of Edinburgh, but his family moved to Glasgow when he w ...

, Anthony Wigham and Hugh Heugh. There was also a Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society and in 1833 there was an

Edinburgh Emancipation Society Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

and in time an

Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society The Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society was a leading Abolitionism, abolitionist group based in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the nineteenth century. The women associated with the organisation are considered "heroines" and the impact of these aboli ...

. The British and American abolitionist movements split over with the beliefs of

William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December , 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read antislavery newspaper '' The Liberator'', which he found ...

who advocated the immediate release of American slaves. This society like Bristol, Edinburgh, Dublin, Bristol, and Clifton were strong supporters whilst other groups favoured a managed move away from slavery.Introduction
, C. Peter Ripley, University of North Carolina

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