Anti-Slavery Society

The query asks about the "Anti-Slavery Society - British organization". The provided search results discuss the American Anti-Slavery Society founded in 1833 and the British Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1787. The answer will focus on the latter, as requested.1

The Anti-Slavery Society was a British organization founded in 1787. Its primary goal was to abolish the slave trade and, subsequently, slavery itself in British overseas possessions. Key figures in its formation and advocacy included William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. The society engaged in extensive public awareness campaigns, petitioning Parliament, and collecting evidence of the slave trade's brutality. After years of effort, the slave trade to British colonies was abolished in 1807, and slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833.2345