Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.

Thomas Clarkson (Wisbech (Cambridgeshire), 28 maart 1760 – Ipswich, 26 september 1846) was een Britse abolitionist, en werd de belangrijkste campagneleider ...

Thomas Clarkson, 1760 – 1846. He was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire into the family of the Reverend John Clarkson, headmaster of the free grammar school.

Thomas Clarkson was one of the main architects of the anti-slavery movement and led an extraordinary campaign against the trade.

Thomas Clarkson was born on 28 March 1760 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He was the son of a clergyman who also taught at the local grammar school.

He published diagrams of how fatally overcrowded slave ships were, and made contact with abolitionists elsewhere in Europe – especially in ...

Thomas Clarkson was a leading campaigner against slavery and the slave trade in Great Britain. He was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England in 1760.

Thomas Clarkson was born on 28th March 1760 at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, son of the Reverend John Clarkson (d.1766) and Anne (Ward).

Thomas Clarkson devoted his life to abolitionism. His An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1786) brought him into association with ...

Thomas Clarkson was an abolitionist, one of the first effective publicists of the English movement against the slave trade and against ...