Contents of this tag:

1. 1 2023-11-13T08:11:58+00:00 Christopher Ohge 67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616 The Forester of the Neutral Ground, by Thomas Pringle 19 Poem by Thomas Pringle plain 2025-01-08T12:32:28+00:00 Christopher Ohge 67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
2. 1 2023-08-23T00:12:00+00:00 Christopher Ohge 67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616 The Desolate Valley, by Thomas Pringle 11 Poem by Thomas Pringle plain 2025-01-07T20:32:07+00:00 Christopher Ohge 67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
3. 1 2023-08-01T11:13:03+00:00 Christopher Ohge 67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616 The Slave's Lament, by Allan Cunningham 8 Poem by Allan Cunningham plain 2025-01-07T19:51:43+00:00 Christopher Ohge 67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616

This page is referenced by:

• 1 2024-08-08T17:27:56+00:00 People Mentioned 156 Bow in the Cloud: Personography plain 2025-01-11T22:12:38+00:00
  View TEI XML

  Abney, Edward Henry

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76154758

  Born: 1811

  Died: 1892

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Edward Henry Abney (1811-1892), domestic chaplain to 1st Baron Belper, was vicar of
  St. Alkmund's, Derby, afterwards prebendary of Lichfield.
  
  Published: "He Being Dead Yet Speaketh"

  Barnard, Edward William

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5345890

  Born: 1791

  Died: 1828

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Edward William Barnard was a divine, poet and scholar. Nephew of fellow abolitionist,
  the Archdeacon Francis Wrangham. 'He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, owing
  to his distaste for mathematics. In 1817 he published anonymously, 'Poems, founded
  upon the Poems of Meleager,' which were re-edited in 1818 under the title of 'Trifles,
  imitative of the Chaster Style of Meleager.' The latter volume was dedicated to Thomas
  Moore, who tells us in his journal that he had the manuscript to look over, and describes
  the poems as 'done with much elegance.' Barnard was presented to the living of Brantingthorp,
  Yorkshire, from which is dated his next publication, 'The Protestant Beadsman' (1822),
  This is described by a writer in 'Notes and Queries' as a 'delightful little volume
  on the saints and martyrs commemorated by the English church, containing biographical
  notices of them, and hymns upon each of them.’ Barnard died prematurely on 10 Jan.
  1828' (source: ODNB, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Barnard,_Edward_William).
  
  Published: The Woldsman's Prayer

  Barton, Bernard

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/47543211

  Born: 1784

  Died: 1849

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: Bernard Barton was a Quaker poet who was best known for The Convict's Appeal (1818),
  in which he protested against the death penalty and the severity of the criminal code.
  
  Published: The Starting-Post; or, Clarkson at Wades-Mill, A Negro-Mother's Cradle-Song, A Christian Negro's Thanks and Prayer, The Goal; or, Clarkson in Old Age

  Benson, Maria

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/29881923

  Born: 1781?

  Died: ?

  Faith: ?

  Note: Maria Benson was a British writer. She was the author of the novel The Wife (1810) and the pedagocial essay 'Thoughts on Education'. She was the daughter of Edward Benson, a wine merchant from York, and sister of Anna Dorothea Montagu (1773/4–1856) -- a friend of Robert Burns and the third wife of reformer and author Basil Montagu (1770–1851) (source: ODNB). See also https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/person/2769.
  
  Published: Rest

  Best, Thomas

  Name ID:

  Born: 1787

  Died: 1865

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: The Rev. Thomas Best, 'father of the Sheffield clergy', was for forty-eight years the Incumbent of St. James's Church, long the fashionable church of the town. He was also a rare 'conformist' in the Bow in the Cloud, having moved from the Congregationalist to the Anglican Church before he moved to Sheffield. He was also known as a critic of the theatre, believing that actors and theater-goers would go to hell. He delivered his first sermon against the theater in 1817. He continued to deliver annual sermons on the subject from the pulpit of St. James's for 47 years, except for one year when he was ill (see Richard Foulkes's Church and Stage in Victorian England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
  
  Published: The True Freedman

  Bowring, John

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332508

  Born: 1792

  Died: 1872

  Faith: Unitarian

  Note: Sir John Bowring was the 4th Governor of Hong Kong and a hymnwriter and translator.
  
  Published: The Negro

  Bridges, Matthew

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18093862

  Born: 1800

  Died: 1894

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Matthew Bridges was a British-Canadian hymnodist.
  
  Published: True Liberty

  Brown, James Baldwin

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/61925237

  Born: 1785

  Died: 1843

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: James Baldwin Brown (1785-1843) was a miscellaneous writer, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1816, and practised on the northern circuit and at the Lancashire quarter sessions. He was appointed judge of the Oldham court of requests in 1840, and died in November 1843. Brown married a sister of the Rev. Thomas Raffles, D.D., and was father of the Congregationalist minister James Baldwin Brown (1820–1884).
  
  Published: To My Native Country, The Negro Burial Ground

  Bulmer, Agnes Collinson

  Name ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/306133896/

  Born: 1775

  Died: 1836

  Faith: Methodist

  Note: Born in London, Bulmer was a poet who belonged to the Wesleyan community, having been
  admitted by Charles Wesley himself. Her major publications include Memoirs of Mrs.
  Mortimer and a 12-book epic poem entitled Messiah's Kingdom (1833). This poem, consisting
  of nearly fourteen thousand verses, is one of the longest works of poetry composed
  by a woman. See also the Wikidata item and Andrew O. Winckles' 'The Book of Nature
  and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer's Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism'
  Womens Writing 22:2 (2015), pp. 209–28,
  (https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2015.1011841).
  
  Published: Liberty, Song

  Burchell, Thomas

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7788037

  Born: 1799

  Died: 1846

  Faith: Baptist

  Note: Thomas Burchell was a leading Baptist missionary and slavery abolitionist in Montego
  Bay, Jamaica, in the early nineteenth century.
  
  Published: The Persecuted Missionary (with William Knibb), Letter from Thomas Burchell to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/103)

  Buxton, Thomas Fowell

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/12306089

  Born: 1786

  Died: 1845

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786
  – 19 February 1845) was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and
  social reformer. In 1822 he succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of the campaign
  in the House of Commons for the abolition of slavery in the British colonies and thus
  was partly responsible for the Abolition Act of 28 August 1833.
  
  Published: Compensation for the Slave, Letter from Thomas Fowell Buxton to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/116), Letter from Thomas Fowell Buxton to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/117)

  Carey, Eustace

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19022952

  Born: 1791

  Died: 1855

  Faith: Baptist

  Note: Eustace Carey was a missionary to India and religious campaigner. He was the son of Thomas Carey, a non-commissioned officer in the army, and the nephew of Dr. William Carey, Indian missionary. He was born 22 March 1791 at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire. He began his preparatory studies for the baptist ministry under the Rev. Mr. Sutcliff at Olney, and in 1812 went to Bristol College; as he set out in the beginning of 1814 as a missionary to India, arriving at Serampore on 1 Aug. On account of failing health he was compelled to leave India, and, arriving in England in September 1825, he in the following year began to advocate the claims of missions throughout the home counties, subsequently extending his visits to Scotland and Ireland. In 1828 be published 'Vindication of the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries,' and in 1831 'Supplement to the Vindication.' In the latter year he published the 'Memoir' of his relative William Carey, D.D. He took a prominent part in the agitation against slavery in Jamaica, and in 1840 was appointed a delegate to the churches there (source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Carey,_Eustace).
  
  Published: The Insurrection in Jamaica

  Cecil, Richard

  Name ID: https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/C/cecil-richard-(2).html

  Born: 1799

  Died: 1863

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: The Rev. Richard Cecil was a Congregationalist minister. He was born in London on 13 Jan. 1799. At the age of fourteen he was converted, and at sixteen entered Rotherham College. He began his ministerial work at Whitehaven, and afterwards removed to Harpenden, near St. Alban's. In 1824 he became pastor of St. James Street Chapel, Nottingham. After remaining there five years, he spent nine years at Turvey as preacher, and as tutor for the London Missionary Society. He was pastor of Chipping Ongar (Essex) from about 1838 to 1847. While at Ongar he directed a small training school for intending missionaries. Among his students, in 1838-9, was David Livingstone (1813-1873), the missionary and explorer. He then returned to Turvey, and died there 30 Jan. 1863.
  
  Published: Preface (with Mary Anne Rawson), The Lot of the Slave
   

  Clarkson, Thomas

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/76414258

  Born: 1760

  Died: 1846

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which ended British trade in slaves (source: Wikipedia).

  Conder, Eliza

  Name ID: https://hymnary.org/person/Conder_JE1

  Born: 1785

  Died: 1877

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Joan Elizabeth Thomas (Eliza Thomas) was born on 6 April 1785, in Hammersmith, Lodon. She was the daughter of Roger Thomas and granddaughter of the sculptor, L. F. Roubiliac. She married Josiah Conder on 8 February 1815, in Battersea. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. Conder contributed poems to The Associate Minstrels, 1810, under the signature "E."; to her husband's work, The Star in the East, 1824, anonymously; to the Congregational Hymn Book, 1836, in her own name; and to The Choir and Oratory, 1837, with an asterisk (John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)). She died in 1877, in Lewisham, London, England, at the age of 92.
  
  Published: Sonnet, The Birthright of Britons, Letter from Eliza Conder to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/16), Letter from Eliza and Josiah Conder to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/18)

  Conder, Josiah

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290456

  Born: 1789

  Died: 1855

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Josiah Conder (17 September 1789–27 December 1855) was a bookseller, abolitionist, author, hymn-writer and close associate of Romantic authors, and kept up a correspondence with James Montgomery, Ann Gilbert (née Taylor), Robert Southey, Rev. Robert Hall, Rev. John Foster, and other writers of the day. He had become proprietor of the 'Eclectic Review' in 1814, and he retained the management of this periodical until 1837, when be transferred it to Dr. Thomas Price, having during his editorship rendered much service to dissenting Christians. He was also active in the Congregational Union and in 1836 he edited The Congregational Hymn Book: a Supplement to Dr. Watts’s Psalms and Hymns (2nd ed. 1844).
  
  Published: "For Who Maketh Thee to Differ?", Letter from Eliza and Josiah Conder to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/18)

  Cunningham, Allan

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2062341

  Born: 1784

  Died: 1842

  Faith: Presbyterian

  Note: Allan Cunngingham was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He was a poet and well connected to the circle of Romantic writers that included Thomas De Quincey, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Thomas Hood -- all of whom who were contributors to the London Magazine in the early 1820s. His father was a neighbor of Robert Burns. After publishing some poems disguised as old ballads in Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Songs (1810), he went to London where he became assistant (1814–41) to the sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. In his spare time he was a hard-working writer and editor. He collected old ballads and stories, published as Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (1822) and The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern (1825). He wrote The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 6 vol. (1829–33). He edited The Works of Robert Burns (1834), prefacing it with a biography of Burns that contained much valuable new material.
  
  Published: The Slave's Lament

  Douglas, James

  Name ID: https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/95281787?mode=transcription

  Born: ?

  Died: 1861

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: James Douglas came from a long line of Scottish nobles dating back to Sir James Douglas, who fought with Robert the Bruce during the Scottish Wars of Independence. Douglas was the eighteenth in descent from Archibald, second son of James, second Earl of Douglas, who was killed at the battle of Otterburn, 21st July, 1388. He was born on 9 October 1790 at Cavers, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, and died there on 17 August 1861. He became laird of Cavers on the death of his father in 1815. He published on philosophy, religion, politics and history, and was a staunch opponent of slavery. In 1833 he published his 'Address on Slavery' (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; and London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1833), which argued for the economic costs of slavery and empire. His intention was to broaden the appeal to those who could oppose slavery on utilitarian rather than moral principles.
  
  Published: "Praise waits for Thee in Zion, Lord!"

  Edmeston, James

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/19298317

  Born: 1791

  Died: 1867

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: James Edmeston was a British architect, surveyor, and well-known hymnwriter. Edmeston
  published The Search, and other Poems in 1817.
  
  Published: The Death of the Slave, Futurity

  Elliot, Charlotte

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4946512

  Born: 1789

  Died: 1871

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Charlotte Elliott (18 March 1789–22 September 1871) was primarily known as an Anglican hymn writer and even to this day is not associated with anti-slavery activism, which is possibly why she did not want her name included in the volume, but she was (until 1834) a member of the Clapham Group, a group of Anglican evangelicals (including Hannah More and William Wilberforce) who campaigned against slavery.
  
  Published: The Dying Negress

  Ely, John

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55020582

  Born: 1793

  Died: 1847

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: John Ely (1793–1847) was a minister from Leeds. He was educated at Hoxton Academy (London), which was a training institution for dissenting Congregational ministers. Ely served as a pastor in various locations, including Rochdale before moving to Leeds. His work and influence were significant in the religious life of Leeds, particularly in the context of the Congregational movement, which emphasized independent, self-governing congregations outside the established Church of England (source: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Leeds/Leeds-SalemChapelCongChurch).
  
  Published: Funeral Oration

  Everett, James

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6133551

  Born: 1784

  Died: 1872

  Faith: Methodist

  Note: The Reverend James Everett (1784-1872) was a Methodist minister and writer from Manchester. He was born in 1784 at Alnwick in Northumberland. At an early period he formed the habit of taking careful notes of the celebrated characters whom he met, and thus preserved recollections of Robert Southey, poet laureate, James Montgomery, William Dawson, and many others. He was subject to criticism and eventual expulsion from the Methodist Conference (the highest legislative authority in the Methodist Church) in 1849. Expelled because he wrote critical pamphlets against the hierarchy, Everett continued his agitation, and became a prolific author and prime mover in the formation of a new sect in 1857, ‘The United Methodist Free Church’.
  
  Published: Poem: 'Reign of Terror', by James Everett, enclosed in a letter to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/186)

  Gilbert, Ann Taylor

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/10688233

  Born: 1782

  Died: 1866

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Ann Gilbert (née Taylor) was an English poet and literary critic. She was the daughter
  of the non-comformist pastor, author, and engraver Isaac Taylor (1759–1829), and second
  wife of Joseph Gilbert, a Congregationalist minister. She gained lasting popularity
  in her youth as a writer of verse for children. In the years up to her marriage, she
  became an astringent literary critic. However, she is best remembered as the elder
  sister and collaborator of Jane Taylor.
  
  Published: Oppression, To a Negro Infant, The Mother

  Gilbert, Joseph

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6283438

  Born: 1779

  Died: 1852

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852) was an Independent then Congregational minister who in
  1813 married the renowned children's author Ann Taylor (who also contributed to The
  Bow in the Cloud).
  
  Published: The Bible and Slavery

  Gurney, Joseph John

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6284410

  Born: 1788

  Died: 1847

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847) was a philanthropist and religious writer, born at Earlham Hall, near Norwich, on 2 Aug. 1788, was the tenth child and third son of John Gurney, a member of a well-known quaker family, and a successful banker in Norwich, who was descended from Joseph, younger brother of John Gurney (1689–1741).
  
  Published: Remarks on the Christian Duty of Putting an End to End Slavery

  Hall, Samuel Carter

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2218070

  Born: 1800

  Died: 1889

  Faith: Spiritualist

  Note: Samuel Carter Hall (9 May 1800 – 11 March 1889) was an Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality; he is regularly cited as the model for the character of Pecksniff in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843/44).
  
  Published: The Cup of Gold

  Hamilton, Richard Winter

  Name ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/27156859/

  Born: 1794

  Died: 1848

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Richard Winter Hamilton was an English Congregational minister and writer. He was born at Pentonville, London, on 6 July 1794. In 1810 he entered Hoxton Academy to study for the ministry and began to preach early. In January 1815 he was chosen to be minister of Albion Independent Chapel, Leeds, where he became a popular preacher. He was an original member, and sometime president, of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (established 1821), to which he presented several papers.
  
  Published: To the Slave, A Brief Account and Familiar Description of Jamaica...

  Hill, Richard

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9310294

  Born: 1795

  Died: 1872

  Faith: ?

  Note: Richard Hill (1795-1872) was a Jamaican lawyer, zoologist, politician, and poet, as
  well as leader of the free people of colour, which campaigned for equal rights in
  the early nineteenth century. He was also close to Thomas Pringle and wrote several letters to him about conditions in Haiti (see also this blog on Hill's letters to Pringle).
  
  Published: Creole Maiden's Song

  Hill, Thomas

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15990044

  Born: 1788

  Died: 1875

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: The Reverend Thomas Hill was the deacon of Chesterfield when the Bow in the Cloud was published. Hill was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1811 and priest in 1812. He was vicar of Badgeworth from 1821 to 1847 (Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1865 edition). From 1847 to 1873 he was Archdeacon of Derby.
  
  Published: The Grave of Wilberforce

  Holland, John

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15452389

  Born: 1794

  Died: 1872

  Faith: Methodist

  Note: John Holland (14 March 1794–28 December 1872) was an English poet, newspaper editor,
  and writer on mining, botany, geology, topography and metallurgy. Born on the grounds
  of the ancient Sheffield Manor, in Yorkshire, he published poems as a young man that
  caught the attention of James Montgomery.
  
  Published: The Set Time, A Word for the Slave

  Hornblower, Jane Elizabeth Roscoe

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/74211865

  Born: 1797

  Died: 1853

  Faith: Unitarian

  Note: Jane E. Roscoe was a poet. She was the daughter of the abolitionist MP William Roscoe
  (1753–1831) and Jane Roscoe (née Griffies). In 1838 she married the Unitarian minister
  Francis Hornblower (1812–1853). Her Poems by one of the Authors of Poems for Youth
  by a Family Circle were published in 1820, and her Poems in 1843 Her hymns in common
  use are:—
  1. How rich the blessings, O my God. Gratitude. In the Liverpool Kenshaw Street Collection
  1818.
  2. My Father, when around me spread. Peace in Affliction. Appeared in the Monthly
  Repository, Dec, 1828; and the Sacred Offering, 1832.
  3. O God, to Thee, Who first hast given. Self-Consecration. In Poems for Youth, 1820.
  4. Thy will be done, I will not fear. Resignation.
  [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] (John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907).)
  
  Sister of William Stanley Roscoe; Elizabeth Roscoe; Edward Roscoe; James Roscoe; Robert
  Roscoe; Thomas Roscoe; Richard Roscoe; Mary Anne Jevons and Henry Roscoe.
  
  Published: Sonnet. The African Mother. A Fact

  Howard, George William (Lord Morpeth)

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2079517

  Born: 1802

  Died: 1865

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802-1865), known as Lord or Viscount Morpeth
  in the Bow in the Cloud, was a Whig politician, orator, and writer. He was closely
  associated with a group of Whig Liberal Anglicans who opposed the Evangelical movement.
  He also exchanged sonnets with William Wordsworth.
  
  Published: Ode on the Abolition of Slavery

  Howitt, Mary Botham

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/42648131

  Born: 1799

  Died: 1888

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: Best known for her children's poem 'The Spider and the Fly' (1829), Howitt also painted
  and translated Hans Christian Anderson.
  
  Published: The Negro-Mother, Visions of Slavery

  Howitt, William

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/22908301

  Born: 1792

  Died: 1879

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: William Howitt was a Quaker writer and activist. In 1821 he married Mary Botham.
  
  Published: West-Indian Slavery, The English Peasant

  James, Paul Moon

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7152575

  Born: 1780

  Died: 1854

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: Paul Moon James was a British poet, banker, and lawyer, who also served for a time as magistrate of Worcestershire and later as High Bailiff of Birmingham, England.
  
  Published: "A Voice from America's Plains" and "A Cry from the Isles of the West"

  Knibb, William

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014079

  Born: 1803

  Died: 1845

  Faith: Baptist

  Note: William Knibb was a Baptist minister and missionary in Jamaica.
  
  Published: The Death of a Female Slave, The Little African Pleader, A Brief Account of a Much-Persecuted Christian Slave, The Persecuted Missionary (with Thomas Burchell)

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/56618365
  
  Born: 1800
  
  Died: 1859
  
  Note: Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy.

  Marsh, William

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8015149

  Born: 1775

  Died: 1864

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: William Marsh (1775–1864) was a British priest in the Church of England and a writer of theological publications, in the 19th century. He was the vicar in St Peters, Colchester where his daughter, Catherine Marsh, the writer was born. He matriculated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford on 10 October 1797, graduated B.A. 1801, M.A. 1807, and B.D. and D.D. 1839. At Christmas 1800 he was ordained to the curacy of St. Lawrence, Reading, and was soon known as an impressive preacher of evangelical doctrines. Ill-health obliged him in 1829 to leave Colchester, and in October of the same year he accepted the rectory of St. Thomas, Birmingham, where from the frequent subject of his sermons he came to be known as 'Millennial Marsh'.
  
  Published: The Negro Poetess

  Miles, Richard

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7327809

  Born: ?

  Died: ?

  Faith: ?

  Note: Richard Miles was a Motswana (Tswana) catechist and preacher "to the native tribes
  beyond the border" in South Africa, who was acquainted with the London Missionary Society. 

  Montgomery, James

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/183634

  Born: 1771

  Died: 1854

  Faith: Moravian
  
  Note: James Montgomery was a Scottish-born hymn writer, poet, editor, and activist who eventually settled in Sheffield. He was the eldest son of a Moravian clergyman, and was born at Irvine, Scotland, on 4 November 1771. He was educated at the Moravian school at Fulneck, near Leeds. He was the editor of the Sheffield Iris newspaper from 1794 to 1825, and was twice imprisoned in the 1790s for publishing articles critical of the authorities. He authored The Wanderer of Switzerland (1807), a poem severely criticised in the Edinburgh Review (Southey sympathised). He also wrote the anti-slavery poem The West Indies (1809) and a series of long historical epics, including Greenland (1819). Southey admired much about Montgomery’s verse (a feeling he shared with Byron), and Southey and Montgomery
  were occasional correspondents.
  
  Published: The Rainbow, Leonard Dober, The Negro is Free, Letter from James Montgomery to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/78), Letter from James Montgomery to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/81), Letter from James Montgomery to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/82) 

  Parker, John

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6251908

  Born: 1799

  Died: 1881

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: John Parker (21 October 1799 – 5 September 1881) was an English Whig politician and
  barrister. He was instrumental in the enfranchisement of Sheffield, petitioning Parliament
  in 1817 and 1822, and creating a pamphlet stating the case for Sheffield in 1830.
  When the Sheffield constituency was finally created as a Parliamentary borough in
  1832 he was elected alongside James Silk Buckingham as its first MPs. He served as
  MP for Sheffield until 1852, becoming Lord of the Treasury (1839–1840), First Secretary
  of the Admiralty, joint Secretary to the Treasury (1846–1849), and a Member of the
  Privy council (1853).
  
  Published: Libertas: Quae Sera Tamen, Respexit, &c. &c.

  Pilkington, George

  Name ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/21715216/

  Born: 1785

  Died: 1858

  Faith: Not known

  Note: George Pilkington was born in Dublin, in 1785, and finished his education at Trinity College, where he probably was of some mark in mathematics, as he quitted the University to accept a commission in the Royal Engineers. He eventually became Captain. In 1848, he was appointed by Earl Grey to be Colonial Engineer of the Cape of Good Hope, where he died in 1858. He was known among anti-slavery activists for his lectures and for his reports on slavery in Brazil for the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (An Address to the English Residents of the Brazilian Empire, published in 1841).
  
  Published: The Black Soldier

  Pringle, Thomas

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380383

  Born: 1789

  Died: 1834

  Faith: Presbyterian

  Note: Thomas Pringle was a Scottish writer, poet, and abolitionist. A friend of Sir Walter Scott, and for a short time editor of the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, he published his first volume of poems in 1809, which included ‘The Emigrant's Farewell’. He emigrated to South Africa, and he is remembered chiefly as a poet of that country. His Ephemerides (1828) and African Sketches (1834) reveal his sympathetic interest in Africa. He became the secretary of the London Anti-slavery Society in 1827. In 1834, the year the Slavery Abolition Act was passed, he died of consumption.
  
  Published: The Desolate Valley, The Forester of the Neutral Ground

  Pritchard, Joseph William Henry 

  Name ID:

  Born: 1804?

  Died: 1836

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Reverend J. W. H. Pritchard was a congregationalist minister. In 1826 he published
  a life of his predecessor. He died 14th July, 1836, at 32.
  
  Published: Freedom Indeed, The Aged Negro

  Raffles, Thomas

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16854223

  Born: 1788

  Died: 1863

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Thomas Raffles was a Congregational minister. was born in Princes Street, Spitalfields, London, on 17 May 1788, the only son of William Raffles (1753–1825 ), a Baptist and a solicitor (d. 1825), and his wife, Rachel, née Dunsby (1755–1832). Thomas's sister, Mary (d. 1858), later married the judge James Baldwin Brown (1790–1843). Between 1805 and 1809 he studied at Homerton College under Dr John Pye Smith. He declined a call to Hanover Street, Long Acre, but settled at George Yard Chapel, Hammersmith, and was ordained on 22 June 1809. On the sudden death of Thomas Spencer of Newington Chapel, Liverpool, Raffles was invited to succeed him. He began his Liverpool ministry on 19 April 1812, and moved on 27 May to the new Great George Street Chapel which had been built to accommodate Spencer's swelling congregation... Besides his verse compositions and his translation of Klopstock's Messiah (1814), Raffles published his Memoirs of Thomas Spencer (1813), Letters during a Tour through France, Savoy, etc. (1818), Lectures on Practical Religion (1820), Lectures on the Doctrines of the Gospel (1822), Hear the Church! A Word for All. By a Doctor of Divinity, but not of Oxford (1839—a riposte to Pusey), The Divine Command: a Jubilee Sermon to the London Missionary Society (1844—interesting in that it produced a premillennialist backlash), Internal Evidence of the Inspiration of Scripture (1849), and Independency at St Helens (1856). He edited a new edition of John Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible (1815). (source: ODNB)
  
  Published: Letter from Thomas Raffles to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/188), Letter from Thomas Raffles to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/190)

  Rawson, Mary Anne

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/4004154867602660100003

  Born: 1801

  Died: 1887

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Mary Anne Rawson was an abolitionist and activist. She campaigned with the Tract Society
  and the British and Foreign Bible Society, for Italian nationalism, and against child
  labour. She was first involved as a founding member of the Sheffield Ladies Anti-Slavery
  group, which successfully campaigned for people to boycott sugar from the West Indies,
  as it was produced by slave labour.
  
  Published: Preface

  Pye-Smith, John

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6058440

  Born: 1774

  Died: 1851

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: John Pye-Smith (1774-1851) was Theological Tutor, effectively Principal, of Homerton Academy from 1806-1850. Born to a Sheffield bookseller John Smith and his wife Mary, John Pye Smith had little formal education, instead teaching himself using the many books available to him in his father’s shop. In 1800, after completing his studies at the Rotherham Academy, Pye Smith was appointed Resident Classical Tutor at Homerton Academy, and became Theological Tutor in 1806. Was friends with James Montgomery.
  
  Published: The Abbé Grégoire

  Sheppard, John

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18009203

  Born: 1785

  Died: 1879

  Faith: Baptist

  Note: John Sheppard (15 October 1785 – 30 April 1879) was an English religious writer. He was born in Frome into a family that dominated cloth manufacture in the city since the Restoration. He undertook active involvement in the affairs of the Particular Baptists, a group that holds to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation belief). In 1837 he published An Autumn Dream, a Calvinistic version of Dante's Paradiso, in blank verse, of over 150 pages, that went into three editions.
  
  Published: Heard Ye Those Mild Tones of Gladness?

  Smith, A. H.

  Name ID:

  Born:

  Died:

  Faith:

  Note:
  
  Published: Slavery

  Sterndale, Mary Handley

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/61410705

  Born: 1766

  Died: 1840

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Born in Derbyshire, Mary Handley Sterndale was a poet, novelist, and travel writer known particularly for children's literature.
  She became friends with the poet Anna Seward (1742–1809; ODNB). See more at https://btw.wlv.ac.uk/authors/1138.

  Published: The Slave-Ship

  Stevens, Maria

  Born: ?
  
  Died: 1840
  
  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Maria Stevens was known for religious writings, instruction, and community work in Knaresborough, Yorkshire. In 1840 Stevens left an endowment to the school to provide bibles for an annual prize. She was the carver Samuel Fisher's second daughter. She was married to Lawrence Stevens of Swaffham and Knaresborough (son of Admiral Stevens); they had two children, who both died young. Her sister, Elizabeth, was married to the Rev. Andrew Cheap, Rector of Elvington and Knaresborough; he was probably responsible for the fact that the Fisher workshop produced so many monuments for Christ Church in Harrogate (Poppy Corita Myerscough, 'The Fishers of York'. PhD Dissertation, University of York, 1996). She belonged to St John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough. She died in 1840 and, according to her memorial in the Parish Church, 'laboured with unwearied zeal and love for the spiritual benefit of the people of this place'. William Stubbs, bishop of Oxford, recalled, 'Mrs. Stevens, a name deeply beloved in the town, gave Bible lessons in a little room off Kirkgate, near the station, and there he constantly attended. "I do not suppose any one was ever more beloved than she", he said in after years; and when he preached in 1872 at the parish church after its restoration, he recalled the "most gracious presence, inseparable from the history of this place, not to be forgotten the commanding eye, and noble figure; the sweet and most eloquent voice; the wonderful hold on Scripture in the spirit and the letter; the marvellous industry that poured forth book after book, illustration after illustration, all the time teaching continuously and continually; nursing the sick, comforting the dying and the sinner, guiding the little ones, foremost in every good work; all with a zeal, a power, an energy that made her a very exception to all the rules that bind the life of Englishwomen, and withal the most sympathetic, the most kindly, the wisest counsellor we ever knew."' (William Stubbs, bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901 : (From the letters of William Stubbs). London : Archibald Constable, 1908).
  
  Published: Luke X.25–37

  Taylor, Isaac

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4453749

  Born: 1787

  Died: 1865

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: English philosopher, writer, artist, and inventor. Brother of Jane and Ann Taylor. He was trained as draughtsman and engraver, executing designs for his father, the engraver and children's writer Isaac (1759–1829), and for the books issued by his sister Jane Taylor. He also executed anatomical drawings for a surgeon, and painted miniatures, one a portrait of his sister, another of himself in 1817. Some of his designs for John Boydell's 'Illustrations of Holy Writ' (1820), were admired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and compared by Alexander Gilchrist with some of the plates of William Blake (Life of Blake, 1863). He was friends with Josiah Conder, who in 1818 invited him to join the regular staff of the Eclectic Review.
  
  Published: Letter from Isaac Taylor to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/164)

  Taylor, Thomas Rawson

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/26896473

  Born: 1807

  Died: 1835

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Thomas Rawson Taylor was a Congregationalist minister and hymn writer. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Taylor, some time Congregational Minister at Bradford, Yorkshire. He was born at Ossett, near Wakefield, May 9, 1807, and educated at the Free School, Bradford, and the Leaf Square Academy, Manchester. He died March 7, 1835. A volume of his Memoirs and Select Remains, by W. S. Matthews, in which were several poems and a few hymns, was published in 1836. His best known hymn is 'I'm but a stranger here'.
  
  Published: The Martyred Missionary's Grave

  Thompson, George

  Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/39366358
  
  Birth: 1804
  
  Death: 1878
  
  Note: George Thompson (18 June 1804 – 7 October 1878) was a British anti-slavery orator and activist who toured giving lectures and worked for legislation while serving as a Member of Parliament. He also became closely connected to American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison in 1833 and later Wendell Phillips. In 1831, his inaugural year as an anti-slavery lecturer, Thompson met with Nathaniel Paul, an African American who was touring Britain to raise money for a fugitive slave colony in Ontario. In the following decades, Thompson collaborated with dozens of black visitors, including Frederick Douglass, with whom he publicly shamed the Free Church of Scotland for accepting a large donation from American slaveholders in 1840. Favoring a quick and decisive emancipation of all slaves, he was ultimately unsatisfied with the British Emancipation Act of 1833, because it forced slaves to work as apprentices for six years after, and used his position in Parliament to push for additional legislation.
  
  Published: Letter from George Thompson to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/162)

  Townley, Dinah Ball

  Born: 1776

  Died: 1859

  Faith: Methodist

  Note: Dinah Townley (née Ball) was Mary Anne Rawson's governess and a published poet. She had previously been a teacher at a private school in west London, where she had received 16-year old Mary-Anne in 1817, and arrived at Wincobank following a rather dramatic recalling of the wilful elder daughter a few months later. She was also connected to James Montgomery, who in the early 1820s published her pamphlet Missionary Society: A Dialogue, which Rawson read (Twells 2009, pp. 93–95). She married the Wesleyan Methodist minister James Townley in 1829.
  
  Published: Hope, Granville Sharp, Pierre Sallah, Poem: 'Toussaint Louverture', by Dinah Ball (English MS 414/37)

  Townley, James

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19107008

  Born: 1774

  Died: 1833

  Faith: Methodist

  Note: 'Wesleyan divine, son of Thomas Townley, a Manchester tradesman, was born at that
  town on 11 May 1774, and educated by the Rev. David Simpson [q. v.] of Macclesfield.
  He became a member of the Wesleyan methodist body in 1790, and a minister in 1796.
  In 1822 he received the degree of D.D. from the college of Princeton, New Jersey,
  in recognition of his literary work. From 1827 to 1832 he acted as general secretary
  of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, and in 1829 was elected president of
  the Wesleyan conference, and presided at the Dublin and Leeds conferences. While in
  Manchester he was a member of a philological society founded by Dr. Adam Clarke. He
  died at Ramsgate on 12 Dec. 1833. He was twice married—to Mary Marsden and Dinah Ball,
  both of London—and had seven children by his first wife' (Dictionary of National Biography,
  1885-1900/Townley, James (1774-1833)).
  
  Published: The Abolition of Slavery

  Townsend, Lucy

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18528740

  Born: 25 July 1781

  Died: 20 April 1847

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Lucy Townsend (née Jesse) was a British abolitionist. Born in West Bromwich July 1781, Lucy Jesse was the daughter of Reverend William Jesse, incumbent at All Saints Church from 1790 to 1814. She married Rev. Charles Townsend, curate of West Bromwich, in 1807. He became vicar in 1815 until 1836. She started the first Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Birmingham, called the Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves. Townsend's organisation was not affiliated to any national organisation, nor was it a partner organisation for Birmingham's male Anti-Slavery Organisation. Rawson's Sheffield organisation was the first Anti-Slavery organisation in Britain to propose an immediate end to slavery. Townsend's organisation took a more conservative view in 1839 when they followed the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society's policy of supporting a more gradual move.
  
  Published: The Decision

  Townshend, Chauncey Hare

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5088270

  Born: 1798

  Died: 1868

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Chauncey Hare Townshend (1798–1868) was a poet and collector. He took holy orders
  in the Church of England as a young man, but was disabled by illness from the active
  duties of his profession. Early in life he made the acquaintance of Robert Southey,
  and received an invitation to Greta Hall, Southey's residence in the vale of Keswick.
  Encouraged by the laureate's approbation, he published a volume of ‘Poems’ in 1821
  (London, 8vo) which were generally praised. He also became friends with Charles Dickens,
  owing to his interest in mesmerism.
  
  Published: Sonnet On the Present Crisis of Affairs...

  Walker, Elizabeth Abney

  Name ID: https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Abney/6000000204883880265

  Born: 1782

  Died: 1850

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Elizabeth Walker was a poet and activist and wife of Henry Walker (1785-1860), an
  iron and steel businessman from Rotherham (see https://www.cliftonpark.org.uk/homepage/29/the-walkers-of-clifton-house).
  
  Published: The Hope of the Slave, The Triumph of Freedom, Invocation to Liberty

  Wardlaw, Ralph

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7288236

  Born: 1779

  Died: 1853

  Faith: Congregationalist

  Note: Ralph Wardlaw was a Congregationalist minister and theologian. Born in Dalkeith, Scotland, in 1779, Wardlaw matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1790. He then trained to become a minister in the Secession Church in which his grandfather and great grandfather had been prominent, but became instead a minister at the Scottish Congregationalist Church's chapel in North Albion Street in 1803. He declined to contribute to the anthology.

  Published: Letter from Ralph Wardlaw to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/160)

  Watson, Joseph

  Name ID: https://www.benshamgrove.org.uk/history/the-spence-watsons/

  Born: 1807

  Died: 1874

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: The son of Joshua Watson, a cheesemonger, Joseph Watson was a gifted student and articled to a firm of well-known solicitors. By 1830 he was a practicing attorney. He was a reformer in politics and was known to speak before large crowds in Newcastle’s Town Moor about the Reform Bill. He also held strong views on civil and religious liberty and supported the abolition of slavery in America and the West Indies. He was known to welcome to his table at Bensham Grove, fugitive slaves including William Wells Brown and Frederick Douglas. He married Sarah Spence in 1835 and after living in Claremont Place in Bensham for some time the couple made their home at Bensham Grove on the death of his father in 1853. As well as his interest in politics, he was a poet and writer of children’s stories. He also had a great interest in Native Americans.
  
  Published: The Slave-Dowry

  Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5489274

  Born: 1792

  Died: 1836

  Faith: Quaker

  Note: Wiffen was a prolific poet and translator. He hailed from an ironmongers family in
  Woburn, Bedfordshire. With James Baldwin Brown and the Rev. Thomas Raffles, he published
  a book entitled 'Poems by Three Friends' in 1812. In 1821, John Russell, the (progressive)
  6th Duke of Bedford, appointed him the Chief Librarian at Woburn Abbey. He set about
  writing a history of the Hosue of Russell, translating the Italian poet Tasso, and
  writing well-regarded poems such as 'On Planting a Slip from Milton’s Mulberry Tree,
  in the Grounds of Woburn Abbey, Presented by Dr. Thackeray, of Cambridge'.
  
  Published: Appeal for the Injured African, They Ask Me for Some Radiant Lay

  Williams, Sarah Joanna

  Name ID: https://hymnary.org/person/Williams_SarahJohanna1805

  Born: 1805

  Died: 1841

  Faith: Unitarian

  Note: Sarah Joanna Williams (1805-1841) was the daughter of Mansfield-based Unitarian minister
  Rev. John Williams (1768–1835), the biographer of Rev. Thomas Belsham. She contributed
  various poems to the Liverpool Sacred Offering. In the vol. for 1834 is the poem,
  "Quiet from God! it cometh not to still The vast and high aspirings of the soul,"
  from which the hymn, “Quiet from God! how blessed 'tis to keep," Rest in God, is adapted
  in Martineau’s Hymns of Praise and Prayer, also in J. P. Hopp’s Collection.
  
  Published: A Voice from the Land of Bondage

  Wood, James Riddall

  Born: 1797

  Died: 1853

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: James Riddall Wood was a lawyer and a naval officer, and in due course he joined the East Indian merchant service, in which he attained to the rank of chief officer. He was born in 1798 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK, and died 7 April 1853 Cotton Lands, Verulam, Victoria County, Natal, South Africa. He first married on 27 Dec 1826 to Hannah Healey Weaver (1805–1836) in the Anglican parish church of St. Peter, Mansfield. Hannah was the daughter of the Rev. Robert Weaver. He remarried on 30 May 1836, in Liverpool, to Mary Haygarth (1817–1885). Wood and his family emigrated from England under the auspices of J. C. Byrne Settler Scheme aboard the KING WILLIAM which sailed from London/Plymouth on 20 October 1849 and arrived at Port Natal (Durban), South Africa, on 22 January 1850. He was also a poet whose Angel Visits, and Other Poems was published in London in 1865.
  
  Published: Who is My Neighbor?

  Wrangham, Francis

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15457452

  Born: 1769

  Died: 1842

  Faith: Anglican

  Note: Francis Wrangham (1769–1842) was a classical scholar, book collector, and miscellaneous writer. Born on 11 June 1769, he was the only son of George Wrangham (1742–1791), who occupied the farm of Raysthorpe, near Malton in Yorkshire, and rented the moiety of another farm at Titchwell, near Wells, Norfolk. In October 1786 Wrangham matriculated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and next year won Sir William Browne's medal for the best Greek and Latin epigrams. They were printed in July 1787 in a single octavo sheet. At the suggestion of Joseph Jowett [q. v.] he migrated to Trinity Hall on 16 Nov. 1787, and on 5 Dec. was elected ‘scholaris de minori formâ.’ He graduated B.A. in 1790, being third wrangler in the mathematical tripos, second Smith's prizeman, and senior chancellor's medallist. He proceeded M.A. on 22 March 1793; in the following June he obtained from the tutors of Trinity Hall letters testimonial to the archbishop of York of his good and satisfactory conduct, and in July he was ordained and became rector of Hunmanby in the East Riding. Wrangham eventually left Trinity Hall and became a member of Trinity College. He published many poems and prose works and was connected to Leigh Hunt, Wordsworth, Basil Montagu, and Mary Mitford. He was also a member of the prestigious Roxburghe Club for book collectors. He eventually became the Archdeacon of the East Riding.
  
  Published: Sonnet, Latin Imitation

• 1 2024-09-17T12:24:45+00:00 Text analysis 51 Results of analysing the anthology and its manuscripts plain 2025-01-09T21:10:53+00:00

  Jump to: Basic statistics | Demographic statistics | Sentiment and narrative shape

  
  The digital edition of The Bow in the Cloud has rendered this 408-page printed anthology, and 30 unpublished manuscripts, into machine-readable XML data that can be used for various analytical purposes.
  
  Some of the following statistics derive from an analysis of a corrected plain text (txt) file of the printed book. Other statistics come from XML source data of the individual pieces themselves as well as the personography data (rendered in People mentioned)

  Basic statistics

  The published anthology is roughly 73,000 total words, with 9,917 unique word forms.
  
  Vocabulary Density: 0.135
  Readability Index: 10.340
  Average Words Per Sentence: 25.1
  
  Below is a searchable table of the most frequent words (not including stop words).
  
  
  
  Access the full Voyant visualisation below to explore the printed book yourself.
  
  

  Demographic statistics

  The published anthology features 59 writers. As the People Mentioned page shows, all but four authors (A. H. Smith, J. R., Elizabeth Jones and one is anonymous and could not be identified) could be positively identified.
  
  In some cases, the anthology did not explicitly name the author of a piece but they have been identified through the analysis of their manuscripts. One of the tasks of curating this data was to undo the evident patriarchal elements of the book. The most prominent example is the Preface, which was authored by Mary Anne Rawson (she is not named anywhere in the book). Other examples: 'The Slave Ship', by 'S.', was written by Mary Sterndale; 'The Martyred Missionary's Grave', by 'T. R. T.', was written by Thomas Rawson Taylor; 'The Lot of the Slave', by 'R. C–––l', was written by Richard Cecil; and 'The Triumph of Freedom', 'From the Emerald Isle', and 'The Hope of the Slave', by 'E.', were both written by Elizabeth Walker. One important feature too is that authors' names are made consistent in the edition: for example, in the book Miss Dinah Ball is also Dinah Townley (Dinah Ball married James Townley while the book was being compiled); 'Mrs. Josiah Conder' is labelled Eliza Conder; 'Mrs. Henry Walker' is Elizabeth Walker.
  
  Of the 59 writers, 43 could be identified as male authors and 14 female.
  
  The religious affiliations are interesting: 14 authors were Congregationalists (which is not surprising because the editor Mary Anne Rawson was a Congregationalist); 14 Anglicans (many of whom were evangelicals, but some were not); 4 Methodists; 4 Baptists; 3 Unitarians; 2 Presbyterians; 1 Moravian; and 1 Spiritualist (or Swedenborgian).
   

  Congregationalist	14
  Anglican	14
  Quaker	8
  Methodist	4
  Baptist	4
  Unitarian	3
  Presbyterian	2
  Moravian	1
  Spiritualist	1

  
  
  Religious affiliations were determined through biographical analysis and secondary sources that could positively identify religious affiliations. Admittedly, this is a difficult designation. In some (unambiguous) cases, authors were open about their affiliation and some were employed within a particular church. In other cases, religious affiliations could be inferred through baptism records, burial records, and associations with a particular milieu. It is also impossible in some cases to ascertain whether religious feeling was strong or whether it was merely social. While these latter cases may seem tenuous, it is still worthwhile to consider how the religious context of a writer may have affected their views and rhetoric on slavery.

  Sentiment and narrative shape

  Scholars may wonder what kind of narrative shape and sentiment value may be applied to this book. As a 'commemoration', does the book show a kind of narrative arc? According to raw sentiment scores, the book does indeed show a 'happy ending', with a dark middle-period.
  
  
  
  These sentiment results were generated from the syuzhet package in R, developed by Matthew Jockers. The syuzhet algorithm assigns sentiment values to each sentence (which is supposed to account for the general sentiment of the whole context of an utterance, rather than a single word or two-word pair). These scores are plotted in the graphs above, with 'rolling mean' graph smoothing out the results of the raw data.
  
  The overall sentiment score of the published book is -89.95. This is lower than two other prominent narratives of slavery from this era, Mary Prince's (-96.3) and Ouladah Equiano's (-120.25). The narrative shape of Rawson's anthology is also different from Prince and Equiano's.
  
  
• 1 2024-09-14T15:59:53+00:00 Pringle, Thomas 3 Person record for Thomas Pringle plain 2024-09-14T16:01:10+00:00

  Pringle, Thomas

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380383

  Born: 1789

  Died: 1834

  Faith: Presbyterian

  Note: Thomas Pringle was a Scottish writer, poet, and abolitionist. A friend of Sir Walter Scott, and for a short time editor of the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, he published his first volume of poems in 1809, which included ‘The Emigrant's Farewell’. He emigrated to South Africa, and he is remembered chiefly as a poet of that country. His Ephemerides (1828) and African Sketches (1834) reveal his sympathetic interest in Africa. He became the secretary of the London Anti-slavery Society in 1827. In 1834, the year the Slavery Abolition Act was passed, he died of consumption.

• 1 2024-09-13T16:01:13+00:00 Cunningham, Allan 2 Person record for Allan Cunningham plain 2024-09-13T16:01:50+00:00

  Cunningham, Allan

  Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2062341

  Born: 1784

  Died: 1842

  Faith: Presbyterian

  Note: Allan Cunngingham was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He was a poet and well connected to the circle of Romantic writers that included Thomas De Quincey, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Thomas Hood -- all of whom who were contributors to the London Magazine in the early 1820s. His father was a neighbor of Robert Burns. After publishing some poems disguised as old ballads in Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Songs (1810), he went to London where he became assistant (1814–41) to the sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. In his spare time he was a hard-working writer and editor. He collected old ballads and stories, published as Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (1822) and The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern (1825). He wrote The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 6 vol. (1829–33). He edited The Works of Robert Burns (1834), prefacing it with a biography of Burns that contained much valuable new material.