What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Reverend Thomas Swan (1795 - 1857) Minister of Cannon Street Baptist Church and campaigner for the Birmingham Antislavery Society lived here. Recorded plaque organisation: Birmingham Civic Society.
Rev Thomas Swan was a prominent minister at Cannon Street Baptist Church and an active campaigner against slavery through his involvement with the Birmingham Antislavery Society, contributing significantly to the abolitionist movement in Britain.
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