Glasgow Emancipation Society
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The Glasgow Emancipation Society was a group of Glaswegians who formed an anti-slavery
abolitionist
group. Prominent members included James McCune Smith
and William Smeal
.
Slavery
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...
abolitionist
Abolitionism
Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery.In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and set slaves free. At the behest of Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas who was shocked at the treatment of natives in the New World, Spain enacted the first...
group. Prominent members included James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author. He is the first African-American to earn a medical degree, and the first to run a pharmacy in the United States. Smith wrote forcefully in refutation of the common misconceptions about race, intelligence, medicine,...
and William Smeal
William Smeal
-Life:William Smeal was born in 1792. William and his brother James were both grocers and interested in anti-slavery in Scotland. William is credited with founding the Glasgow Emancipation Society. William is also noted as a tea merchant....
.