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\\ GUSTAVUS VASSA, OLAUDAH \\ OTTOBAH CUGOANO BORN IN
// IGNATIUS SANCHO (1729–80)
COMPOSER AND LITERARY EQUIANO. 1757. LONDON WRITER AND
CELEBRITY. WRITER AND ABOLITIONIST ABOLITIONIST

If they could effect change, given their gustus Washington Bailey; c. February as a man.”
conditions and experiences, then the 1817– February 20, 1895) was an Ameri-
present-day government has no excuse can social reformer, In 1846, Douglass met with Thomas Clark-
not to do the same in the 21st century abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. son, one of the last living British abolition-
ists, who had persuaded Parliament to
Mary Prince was a British abolitionist and He escaped slavery in Maryland, and be- abolish slavery in Great Britain’s colonies.
auto biographer born in 1788. Her autobi- came a national leader of the abolitionist
ography The History Of Mary Prince was movement in Massachusetts and New During his trip Douglass became legally
first published in 1831 making her the first York, gaining notoriety for his oratory and free, as British supporters led by Anna
black woman to write and publish an auto- incisive antislavery writings. Richardson and her sister-in-law Ellen
biography in Britain. of Newcastle upon Tyne raised funds to
Douglass was described by abolitionists buy his freedom from his American owner
Prince’s work documented her brutal as a living counterexample to the slave- Thomas Auld.
treatment as an enslaved person in Ber- holders’ theory that ‘slaves’ lacked the
muda, and it was instrumental in the intellectual capacity to function as inde- Many supporters tried to encourage
anti-slave trade movement. Prince, who pendent American citizens. Douglass to remain in England but, with
worked with the Anti-Slavery Society, was his wife still in Massachusetts and three
also the first woman to present an an- Douglass spent two years in Ireland and million of his black brethren in bondage in
ti-slavery letter to parliament. Great Britain, where he gave lectures. the United States, he returned to America
His draw was so great that some build- in 1847.
This was no small achievement at the time ings were “crowded to suffocation”. One
because slavery was still legal in England example was a popular London Reception Ignatius Sancho (1729–80), was one of
but unrest from abolitionists made her au- Speech, which Douglass delivered in May the few black people in Britain in the late
tobiography immensely popular. 1846 at Alexander Fletcher’s Finsbury 18th century who lived an independent
Chapel. Douglass remarked that in Eng- life. He was born on a slave ship and later MAGAZINE // 25
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Au- land he was treated not “as a colour, but became a composer and literary celebrity.