Hannah More’s Slavery: A Poem and Ann Yearsley’s A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade deserve more critical attention in the eighteenth-century British poetry because they strongly condemned slave trade when most of the contemporary (male) writers ignored the topic. More and Yearsley were equally sympathetic to the Africans sold as slaves, however, they differ regarding how the matter could be solved. More’s claim for abolition is politically liberal enough but it is limited by her sense of racial and class superiority, so she emphasizes the restoration of degraded Christian morals of the white people rather than addressing the root cause. On the other hand, Yeasley blames laws and customs for tolerating slave trade. While claiming abolition, from her experience as a working-class woman Yearsley also reminds readers of the various forms of oppression within Britain. That is the reason why Yearsley is more worthy of our critical attention in the eighteenth-century poetry than More.