James Ramsay (abolitionist)
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Rev. James Ramsay was a Scottish ship's surgeon, Anglican priest, and leading abolitionist in Great Britain.
Portrait by Carl Frederik von Breda, c. 1789
Thomas Clarkson
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Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and help
James Ramsay (abolitionist)
…William Wilberforce in 1783 and played a significant part in the establishment of the campaign against the slave trade. It was Ramsay's meeting with Thomas Clarkson in 1786 that encouraged the latter in his tireless efforts to obtain first-hand evidence of the trade, and indirectly led to the formation of the Society…
Portrait by Carl Frederik von Breda, 1788
The Thomas Clarkson Monument at Wadesmill
Playford Hall, the Clarksons' home from 1816
Clarkson, 1834 by Samuel Lane