William Morgan

William Morgan (1815 – ) was a leading member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society, whose members were very influential in abolitionist movements in Britain.

Career Morgan was trained as a solicitor and worked in Birmingham.

He was an active member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society, which campaigned for abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1838. On the anniversary of the abolition a celebration was again held in Birmingham and it was Morgan who distributed information and invitations to the local Sunday Schools.

Morgan was a founder of the local Baptist Union and served as secretary to the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society revived around 1835, when British slavery was made illegal (in 1838). He married Henrietta Barnard, from Nailsworth in Gloucestershire, on 6 March 1841.

Works The Arabs of tía City or a Plea for Brotherhood with the Outcast - Address to the YMCA, Birmingham, 1853 (when he was Town Clerk of Birmingham), Hudson and Son, London