The agitation of some Quakers, especially that of philanthropist Joseph Sturge, helped to bring British slavery in the West Indies to an end in 1838, two years before it was officially scheduled to. Sturge's report...
When plantation absentee owners, brothers William Foster and Joseph Foster-Barham got the Moravian Church to send missionaries to Jamaica, it was for the missionaries to attend to the spiritual needs of the enslaved Africans on their various...
