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Quaker Women and Anti-Slavery Activism: Eleanor Clark and the Free Labour Cotton Depot in Street
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Quaker Women and Anti-Slavery Activism: Eleanor Clark and the Free Labour Cotton Depot in Street
Research Article
Quaker Women and Anti-Slavery Activism: Eleanor Clark and the Free Labour Cotton Depot in Street

Abstract

This article explores the anti-slavery activity of Quaker Eleanor Stephens Clark. It concerns a ‘depot’ or shop that she ran from 1853 until 1858, selling cotton goods cultivated by free-labour, rather than slave labour. This was part of the ‘Free Produce Movement’ which promoted a boycott of slave-made goods and thus offered shoppers a practical contribution to abolitionism or even a remedy for the problem of slavery. The political, commercial and social aspects of Clark's shop provide the basis for a discussion of a Quaker women's anti-slavery activity, and the practical impact that it made on free-produce shoppers in the locale.

Keywords

free-labour cotton, Free Produce Movement, depot, Eleanor Clark, Quaker women

How to Cite

Kett, A., (2014) “Quaker Women and Anti-Slavery Activism: Eleanor Clark and the Free Labour Cotton Depot in Street”, Quaker Studies 19(1), 137–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.3828/quaker.19.1.137

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Anna Vaughan Kett (University of Brighton)

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  • Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2014

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Pages 137–156
Published on 2014-03-01

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/quaker.19.1.137

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