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Joseph Sturge (2 August 1793 – 14 May 1859) was an English Quaker, abolitionist and activist. He founded the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (now Anti-Slavery International). He worked throughout his life in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working-class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves.
10 de may. de 2024 · Joseph Sturge (born August 2, 1793, Elberton, Gloucestershire, England—died May 14, 1859, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire) was an English philanthropist, Quaker pacifist, and political reformer who was most important as a leader of the antislavery movement.
Joseph Sturge. 1793 – 1859. Son of Quaker farmer Joseph Sturge and his wife Mary, he was born at Elberton, Gloucestershire, the fourth of twelve children. He attended Sidcot School until he was fourteen, when he joined his father on the land.
A Quaker, and owner of a grain-importing business in Birmingham, Sturge left the running of the company to his brother after 1831 and dedicated himself to various reformist movements.
From 1832 the pilot light burned more fiercely as the Peace Society turned itself into a pressure group. This overtly political role was made possible by a new domestic environment in which governments made concessions and reform campaigns burgeoned.
Joseph Sturge. In: Abolitionists and Working-Class Problems in the Age of Industrialization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06997-2_3
Outspoken career activist, Joseph Sturge, dedicated most of his life to the emancipation of slaves in all British territories. Sturge was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1793, and joined the abolition movement in 1823.
