Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors' (Picador Collection)

by David Olusoga

The most eloquent and compelling of the advocates of ‘immediatism’ were women and the most dynamic of them was Elizabeth Heyrick, a Quaker schoolteacher from Leicester. In 1824 she wrote a pamphlet entitled Immediate, not Gradual Abolition.