Mary Birkett Card | |
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Born | Mary Birkett December 28, 1774 Liverpool, United Kingdom |
Died | 1817 Dublin | (aged 42–43)
Nationality | British |
Notable work | A Poem on the African Slave Trade |
Mary Birkett Card (28 December 1774–1817), was an Irish based British poet, abolitionist, and feminist, best remembered for her anti-slavery poem, A Poem on the African Slave Trade published when she was seventeen.[1][2][3]