Picture No | 10219524 |
Date | 1852 |
Description | Group Meeting of the Family Colonisation Loan Society, 1852. |
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Mrs Chisholm set up the Family Colonisation Loan Society to enable poor families to save regularly to cover the cost of emigration. Donations were also made by the wealthy. This engraving shows a meeting of the Society, with hundreds of interested spectators.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 1852. p176. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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