8, No. 43, Feb. 29, 1812 Biographical, Sketch of Thomas Clarkson,... Biographical, Sketch of Thomas Clarkson, M. A. The Intrepid Advocate of the Abolition of Negro Slavery (Continued) This is the ...
As a student at Cambridge in 1784, Clarkson travelled 35,000 miles in his relentless campaign for the abolition of the slave trade, which absorbed his life. To gather evidence he interviewed many ...
In 1787 Thomas Clarkson went on a five month speaking tour of England, showing people chains and irons, and a model of a slave ship. During the 1770s the abolitionist campaigner Granville Sharp ...
The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade tasked Thomas Clarkson with gathering evidence of the evils of the slave trade. In 1786, Thomas Clarkson’s 'An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce ...