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Thomas Clarkson

(1760-1846), Slavery abolitionist

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Sitter in 11 portraits
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 Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce and other opponents of slavery; Clarkson joined them in forming a society for the abolition of the slave trade. He visited British ports to collect facts for his pamphlet A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition (1787), and the evidence that he gathered was used in the antislavery campaign led by Wilberforce in Parliament. In 1807, a bill for the abolition of the slave trade finally was passed, and the next year Clarkson's two-volume history of the trade was published.

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Thomas Clarkson, by Carl Fredrik von Breda - NPG 235Thomas Clarkson
by Carl Fredrik von Breda
NPG 235
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon - NPG 599The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
NPG 599
Thomas Clarkson, by John Young, after Carl Fredrik von Breda - NPG D33312Thomas Clarkson
by John Young, after Carl Fredrik von Breda
NPG D33312
Thomas Clarkson, after Alfred Edward Chalon - NPG D1468Thomas Clarkson
after Alfred Edward Chalon
NPG D1468
Thomas Clarkson, by Charles Turner, after Alfred Edward Chalon - NPG D33313Thomas Clarkson
by Charles Turner, after Alfred Edward Chalon
NPG D33313
Thomas Clarkson, by John Cochran, after Samuel Lane - NPG D2085Thomas Clarkson
by John Cochran, after Samuel Lane
NPG D2085
Thomas Clarkson, by Thomas Anthony Dean, after Henry Room - NPG D33314Thomas Clarkson
by Thomas Anthony Dean, after Henry Room
NPG D33314
'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840), by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon - NPG D23546'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840)
by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
NPG D23546
'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840), by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon - NPG D32033'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840)
by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
NPG D32033
'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840), by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon - NPG D20516'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840)
by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
NPG D20516
Heroes of the Slave Trade Abolition, by Unknown artist - NPG D9338Heroes of the Slave Trade Abolition
by Unknown artist
NPG D9338

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