Mary Anne Rawson (1801-1887) was an abolitionist who also a campaigned with the Tract Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society, for Italian nationalism and against child labour.
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![Rawson is to the far right in this painting which is of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.[1] Move your cursor to the right hand side to identify her or click icon to enlarge](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/The_Anti-Slavery_Society_Convention%2C_1840_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg/1280px-The_Anti-Slavery_Society_Convention%2C_1840_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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Mary Anne Rawson (1801-1887) was an abolitionist who also a campaigned with the Tract Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society, for Italian nationalism and against child labour. She was first involved with a Sheffield group, which successfully campaigned for people to boycott sugar from the West Indies, as it was produced by slave labour. She is pictured attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840.
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Activists
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Activist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1801 to 1887 · aged 85
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