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Thomas Clarkson

1760 - 1846

About the Author

Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was the leading opponent of the slave trade and slavery in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His opposition was was based on religious (he was an evangelical Anglican), moral, political, and economic grounds and he had an enormous impact in Europe and the United States.

In The Library:

• author: An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1786)
• author: The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, 2 vols. (1808)
• author: The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, vol. 1 (1808)
• author: The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, vol. 2 (1808)

Quotations:

• Thomas Clarkson on the “glorious” victory of the abolition of the slave trade in England (1808) (12 March, 2007)