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The Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society, like the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, was one of 16 ladies' abolition societies founded in Scotland after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. The founder, leader and secretary of the Glasgow society was Jane Wigham, then Jane Smeal, sister of William Smeal, also a prominent Glaswegian abolitionist.

In 1836 Jane Smeal wrote of the women in the city that "neither the noble, the rich, nor the learned are to be found advocating ... our object. Our subscribers and most efficient members are all in the middling and working classes but they evince great zeal and labour very harmoniously together." Subscription to the society was 2s.6d.