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 ...
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 ...
One method of the abolitionist movement was to challenge ... At Cambridge University in 1779, Thomas Clarkson won an essay competition, writing on the subject of whether it was lawful to enslave ...