Joseph Soul

Joseph Soul (1805-1881) was a leader within the abolitionist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. In 1840 he addressed an important convention of the Anti-Slavery Society and was included in Benjamin Robert Haydon’s famous portrait of that event. Besides his duties with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, he served for more than thirty years as secretary of the Orphan Working School, Haverstock Hill, North London. See Missionary Herald (December 1843), 658.