Elizabeth Dickson or Elizabeth Dalzac ( – 30 April 1862) was a British woman who raised the British public profile of the Christian white slaves held in north Africa by the Barbary Slave Trade.
Her father had been sent to Africa as a doctor but he turned to trading slaves in his spare time.
[1] Her father rose to be governor of Cape Coast Castle and he wrote an apology for the slave trade called The History of Dahomy.
Dalzac's letters to British journalists attracted the attention of the Knights Liberators and Anti-Piratical Society.
[3] The plight of these people was taken up by the politician Henry Brougham in the British Parliament and in August 1826 the slave trade in Algiers was obliged to release 3,000 Christian slaves[1] following the Bombardment of Algiers by a force led by Lord Exmouth.