Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarksonwas an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Tradeand helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth28 March 1760
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expect merit produced quakers reasonably time
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
attachment born spots
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.