Social reformation is a term used to describe a movement organized by community members to create change in their society. Social Reformation concentrates on the contestants who advocate for a crucial cause. Social reformation relates to a reformer who is taking action in abolishing slavery. The early reform movement in the early 1800s is based on women's suffering, limits on child labor, abolition, temperance, and prison reform. 

Throughout this Early Social Reformation timeline, we focus on The Sorrows of Yamba: or the Negro Woman's Lamentation, published in 1795 by Hannah More. This tale is based on a woman who has been taken away from her loved ones and sold as a slave. We can see throughout the poem how difficult her life is as a slave.