British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society is an organisation of what are called Searoaders in the setting.

Introduction
Founded in 1839, the BFASS is the descendant of a previous Anti-Slavery Society which successfully pushed for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1838. Its goal is to expand this success at home by abolishing slavery worldwide.

Advocates against slavery and for the emancipation of existing enslaved peoples, the BFASS is heavily opposed to the Confederacy and its national policy of expanding slavery in all its territories. As such, one of its major missions within the Caribbean region is the provision of relief, and the rescue and freeing of slaves by sea.

In general, the BFASS advocates peaceful reform as the means to abolishing slavery - an ideology that stems from the Quaker beliefs of many of the founding members. They prioritise 'relief and escape' over other operations. In this, they stand somewhat against some other main Searoader organisations, such as the Abolitionist Society and the Societe des Amis de la Liberte, both of which have been known to aid more militant anti-slavery movements.

In-Game
In the setting, the BFASS is based in Belize City as well as Cockburn Town in the Turks and Caicos islands.

Their current director is Edmund Burgess, who is based in Belize City, and who is mainly focused on the rescue of the Maya peoples from a massive slave-taking campaign led by the Confederacy. His deputy is a woman - Laura Jane Palmer - who focuses more on the islands from her post in Cockburn Town.