Editing London Corresponding Society (section)

===Noted members===
The society had an early celebrity recruit, the ex-slave, free [[West Indies|West-Indian]] black and [[abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[Olaudah Equiano]]. In 1791–92, Equiano was touring the British Isles with his autobiography, ''[[The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano]], or Gustavus Vassa the African''. Drawing on abolitionist networks he brokered connections for the LCS, including what may have been the society's first contacts with the [[Society of United Irishmen|United Irishmen]].<ref name="Featherstone">{{cite journal |last1=Featherstone |first1=David |title='We will have equality and liberty in Ireland': The Contested Geographies of Irish Democratic Political Cultures in the 1790s |journal=Historical Geography |date=2013 |volume=41 |pages=124–126}}</ref> In [[Belfast]] (where civic outrage had defeated plans to commission vessels for the [[Middle Passage]]) Equiano was hosted by the leading United Irishman, publisher of their Painite newspaper the [[Northern Star (newspaper of the Society of United Irishmen)|''Northern Star'']], [[Samuel Neilson]].<ref name="Rodgers">{{cite journal |last1=Rodgers |first1=Nini |title=Equiano in Belfast: A study of the Anti-Slavery Ethos in a Northern Town |journal=Slavery and Abolition |date=1997 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=73–89|doi=10.1080/01440399708575211 }}</ref>

Paine subscribed to the Society; as did the radical poet [[William Blake]]; [[Joseph Ritson]] the noted antiquarian and founder of modern vegetarianism; and [[Basil William Douglas]], Lord Daer, who held concurrent membership of the Society for Constitutional Information and the Scottish Association of the Friends of the People.