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
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
John Clarkson (abolitionist)
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Lieutenant John Clarkson was a Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator and abolitionist. He was the younger brother of Thomas Clarkson, one of the central figures in the British abolitionist moveme
Thomas Clarkson
…Trade) and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which ended British trade in slaves. He became a pacifist in 1816 and, with his brother, John, was one of the twelve founders of the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace. In his later years Clarkson campaigned for the…
c. 1791 miniature portrait of Clarkson
The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson in Nova Scotia.
The grave of John Clarkson in the graveyard of St Mary the Virgin, Woodbridge