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Camden New Journal - By CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
Published: 3 January 2008

Campaigners’ grave protected

TUCKED away in an unkempt corner of Highgate Cemetery, the 19th century tomb of a husband and wife has had little more than weeds for protection over the years.
Until this week, that is, when culture minister Margaret Hodge announced Grade II status for the simple stone mausoleum which forms the final resting place for social reformers Samuel Lucas and Margaret Bright Lucas.
The Lucases were both prominent campaigners for the abolition of slavery
Samuel was a Quaker corn merchant and editor of the Morning Star, who regularly condemned slavery in America.
In 1862 he was a founding member of the Emancipation Society, supporting Lincoln’s promise to do away with slavery.
Ms Hodge said: “It is important that we acknowledge all aspects of the slave trade, both the people who campaigned against it and succeeded in bringing about the abolition of slavery, and also the people affected by it, the Africans whose lives were disrupted and destroyed.”

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