Anne+Knight


 * Before the suffragettes, women still had a long history of campaigning for the right to vote. Anne Knight was just one example of one of these women.**
 * She was the daughter of William Knight and Priscilla Allen. Both these families were Quakers and they both supported the temperence and anti-slavery movements.**
 * She was the founder of a branch of the the Women's Anti-Slavery Society and worked with Thomas Clarkson, an English abolitionist who campaigned against the slave-trade and the British Empire.**
 * The first time Knight started campaigning for women's rights, was when women were prevented from taking part in the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840.[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/The_Anti-Slavery_Society_Convention,_1840_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg/300px-The_Anti-Slavery_Society_Convention,_1840_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg align="left" caption="Anne Knight at the World Anti-Slavery Convention 1840"]] These women included: Elizabeth Pease, Amelia Opie and even the daughter of Thomas Clarkson, Mary Clarkson.**