Thomas Clarkson

Charles and Mary Lamb set out for a jaunt northwards to the Lake District, where they stayed with the families of Coleridge at Keswick and the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson at Ambleside.

Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III fell ill, probably...

The abolitionist cause was nothing new to EH when she stepped forth an advocate for it: her parents and her siblings all supported it. Her mother was an admirer of Thomas Clarkson , and she...

CH wrote in her diary in 1783, a propos of slavery, I do not love the Americans. She was much impressed by her reading of Thomas Clarkson 's history of the slave trade, 1808.

Mary Lamb had another bout of mental illness; this one interrupted both her summer holiday with Thomas Clarkson 's family and her writing of Mrs Leicester's School.

Thomas Clarkson , historian of the slave trade, had interviewed Falconbridge (as an important witness) about his four different voyages as a surgeon to the coast of Africa, his personal experience of the barbarity...

CH grew up in a Dissenting family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a...