Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: The Emancipation of Women: Anne Knight

Description: Abstract - Born in Chelmsford in 1781. By 1830 she was deeply involved in the Quaker attempt to end slavery. In 1834 she toured France where she gave lectures on the immorality of slavery. She also became active in the Chartist movement. She never married, and spent the last few years of her life in Waldersbach, a small village south-west of Strasbourg where she died on 4th November, 1862.