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An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species - Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785 (Paperback)
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An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species - Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
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This 1786 publication is a translation of a prizewinning Latin
essay written by Thomas Clarkson (1760 1846) at Cambridge the
previous year. Clarkson's deep research into the Atlantic slave
trade instilled in him a sense of duty, inspiring him to devote his
life to abolitionism. The publication of the essay introduced
Clarkson to like-minded campaigners, notably William Wilberforce
(1759 1833) and Granville Sharpe (1735 1813), with whom he helped
to establish in 1787 the pioneering Society for Effecting the
Abolition of the Slave Trade. Thoughts on the African Slave Trade
(1788) by the sailor, slave trader and Anglican clergyman John
Newton (1725 1807) is also reissued in this volume. Published
thirty-four years after Newton's retirement from the slave trade,
this pamphlet apologises for his 'too late' conversion to the
abolitionist movement and describes the horrific conditions aboard
slave ships during the Middle Passage.
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