Born in 1745, Hannah More, in 1795, wrote her poem "The Sorrows of Yamba: or The Negro Woman's Lamentation". This poem tells the story of Yamba, a black woman who was taken from her home in Africa by white men to be sold into slavery overseas. Yamba was a wife and a mother, and, while on the ship being taken as a slave, her baby dies, which Yamba takes as a blessing. Yamba's slave master was so cruel that Yamba wished for death and strayed "Far from home", saying "Death itself I long'd to taste, Long'd to cast me in and Die" (More). "Upon the strand" Yamba encounters a missionary, who shares the gospel with her, which Yamba is greatly impacted by (More). She quickly understands the power of forgiveness, and writes that all the slaves whose master's beat them are also sinful. So, Yamba states, "So forgive your Massas' sin" (More). Yamba concludes that even when she is on the brink of death, her hope is that Africa will one day be free. This poem exemplifies the abolitionist movement happening at the time; and, More, as a female writer, was especially impactful, even as she faced opposition.