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Thomas Clarkson
Standard Name: Clarkson, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Catherine Hutton | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Maria Falconbridge | 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... |
| Health | Mary Lamb | 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. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003. 240-1 |
| politics | Elizabeth Heyrick | 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... |
| politics | Catherine Hutton | CH
wrote in her diary in 1783, a propos of slavery, I do not love the Americans. qtd. in Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 85 Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 144 |
| Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | 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... |
| Travel | Mary Lamb |
Timeline
1786: Thomas Clarkson published his measured polemic...
Writing climate item
1786
Thomas Clarkson
published his measured polemic On the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xv
22 May 1787: The Society for the Abolition of the Slave...
National or international item
22 May 1787
The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
was founded in London, by Granville Sharp
, Thomas Clarkson
, and ten more, of whom nine were Quakers
.
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
83
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
109
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Wilberforce
1788: The Quaker Thomas Clarkson travelled round...
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1788
The QuakerThomas Clarkson
travelled round British ports collecting evidence (in the face of obstacles and opposition) about the operations of the slave trade.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
91
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
By October 1808: Thomas Clarkson published his History of...
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By October 1808
Thomas Clarkson
published his History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade, by the British Parliament (abolition dated from 1 May 1807).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 15 (1808): 133-4
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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