American Literature
William Blake, Anne Yearsley, Hannah More, and William Cowper--helped further the cause of the Abolition Society by writing poems and essays
meant to prod parliamentary debate and the reform of the slave trade. Although these literary efforts were instrumental in gaining support from the
public and for petitions for legislative reform, the abolition drives of the late 1780s and early 1790s were repeatedly unsuccessful because of the
influence of the proslavery West Indian lobby and the 1793 war between England and France, which strengthened conservative opinion against
what was considered the radicalism of abolitionism. Finally, in 1807, the continued efforts of the Abolition Society and abolitionist authors had their
desired effect when Britain formally abolished the slave trade.The outlawing of the British slave trade in 1807 did not mean an end to English
abolitionist writing
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