Abolitionism in America


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Thomas Clarkson, Engraved Portrait, ca. 1820.
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Letter from Thomas Clarkson to Richard Chandler. London, October 24, 1791.
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Thomas Clarkson
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In 1787, Thomas Clarkson, perhaps the greatest proponent of the abolitionist movement in England, helped establish the Committee for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Clarkson collected and publicized compelling evidence against slavery and used his political influence to speak out against slavery throughout England and France. After Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, Clarkson wrote the History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the African Slave Trade, which was instrumental in bringing about the final abolition of slavery in Great Britain in 1833.

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