Quaker women honoured for sugar boycott

‘Some Quakers also offered hospitality and shelter for enslaved “runaways”.'

A Sunderland Friend has spoken about the role that Quaker women played in the movement to end thhe slave trade. The talk by Ann Smith was made for the virtual unveiling of a blue plaque dedicated to the women’s activism.

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