The Negroís Friend, or, the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Album.

First edition, tall 12mo (190 x 115 mm), xii, 204pp., steel engraved frontispiece and one further plate (with slight water tide-mark to both), one woodcut vignette, original boards, soiled, spine with printed title label, slightly chipped, uncut. The Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society was a bold and organised group of women who used pamphleteering, boycotts, and public advocacy to press for immediate abolition. Their efforts not only influenced national policy but also laid groundwork for future humanitarian and feminist movements. By lectures and pamphlets, the society successfully boycotted to decrease sales of West Indian goods produced by slaves, such as coffee and sugar, and in 1827 it became the first anti-slavery society in Britain to call for the immediate emancipation of slaves. The volume, edited by two members of the Sheffield Anti-slavery Committee, contains an account of the formation of the society and general remarks on the slave trade in the West Indies. This is then followed by a series of short anti-slavery narratives and poems. Ragatz, p. 440.