Throughout the 1820s and 1830s women campaigned against slavery in many ways. One way women campaigned against slavery was through writing pamphlets. An example is Elizabeth Heyrick, in 1824 she wrote a pamphlet called immediate, not gradual abolition. This pamphlet called for people who opposed slavery (Elizabeth Heyrick,1837). The pamphlet asked people to boycott slave produced sugar, and stressed that slaves should be emancipated immediately not gradually. The chairman of one of the female societies said “men may propose only gradually to abolish the worst of crimes… I trust no ladies’ association will ever be found with such words attached to it” (Blackburn,1988, P.424). Elizabeth Heyrick as well as female anti-slavery societies followed
