Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was an English abolitionist who campaigned with William Wilberforce to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Clarkson’s given name was incorrect in stories about ...

It also inspires him to devote his life to the abolition of the slave trade. The student's name was Thomas Clarkson. He, along with another Englishman, William Wilberforce, would lead this fight ...

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 ...

The Plymley household was a hub for forward-thinking families like the Darwins and Wedgwoods, and Katherine herself encountered key abolitionist figures including Thomas Clarkson, William ...

Thomas Clarkson was a central part of the campaign ... Clarkson helped start the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the ...

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 ...