Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840) NPG D32033

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon

Anti-slavery abolitionist and champion of women's rights. In 1824 she published Immediate not Gradual Abolition, a pamphlet demanding the boycott of sugar grown on slave plantations and describing gradual abolition as 'the very masterpiece of satanic policy'. She was outraged to discover that the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 prevented women from speaking. Already a member of the Chelmsford Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, the event spurred on her campaigns. In 1847, her published letter on gender equality is considered to be the first leaflet on women's... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.