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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (Paperback)
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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition, Volume 1
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Thomas Clarkson (1760 1846) was a leading campaigner against
slavery and the African slave trade. After graduating from St.
John's College, Cambridge in 1783, Clarkson with Granville Sharp
(1735 1813) founded the Committee for the Abolition of the African
Slave Trade in 1787, which increased popular support for abolition
and was the main campaigner behind the abolition of the slave
trade. These volumes, first published in 1808, contain a unique
contemporary account of the abolition movement from one of its
major leaders. Clarkson describes in great detail the Quaker
background to the abolitionist movement and the parliamentary
debates leading to the Slave Trade Act of 1807. The contemporary
arguments both in support and in opposition to abolition and the
researches and actions of the abolition movement's members are
described, creating an important historical record of the movement.
Volume 1 contains the early history of the abolition movement until
July 1788.
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