Religion affiliation
Joseph Sturge was an abolitionist from England who was heavily involved in the abolition of slavey after his visit to the West Indies. He felt slavery needed to be abolished especially from his Christian beliefs and he wanted to address there was no justification for slavery in the Bible. The memorial is in remerance of him as an activist for the abolition of slavery and his involvement in many anti-slavery societies.
Richard Furman served in history as the face of the early 19th century Baptist Church in South Carolina. In his Exposition of the Views of Slavery, he provides the religious perspective of the Baptists on the abolition movement. He specifically discusses the Colored population and exemplifies why it would be an issue to free so many slaves in fear of an armed uprising.
In his writing, John Welsley made sure to exemplify from a Methodist standpoint the appeals of abolition under the eyes of God. Thoughts Upon Slavery, written in 1774 is a document that widely spread the religious abolition movement throughout Europe and to the Americas as this was read all over in the late 18th century.
George Fox writes opposing slavery and bondage beginning the Quaker movement of abolition in the late 17th century. In the Gospel Family Order, he speaks on the behalf of the Quaker society and presents their mission in abolition with the support of God's idea of how people should be unbound and free. He spreads his influnce in Pensylvania to all over America with his writing and ideas.
