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An Essay On the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade

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Clarkson, Thomas

▪ English abolitionist
born March 28, 1760, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Eng.
died Sept. 26, 1846, Ipswich, Suffolk

      abolitionist, one of the first effective publicists of the English movement against the slave trade and against slavery in the colonies.

      Clarkson was ordained a deacon, but from 1785 he 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 (Sharp, Granville), William Wilberforce (Wilberforce, William), and other foes of slavery. In 1787 he joined them in forming a society for the abolition of the slave trade. His essay also gained him the sympathy of Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox, and the younger William Pitt.

      Clarkson 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). The evidence that he gathered was used in the antislavery campaign led by Wilberforce in Parliament. Little progress was made during the early years of warfare with France because many members of Parliament believed that the slave trade provided essential wealth for the nation and valuable training for the navy.

      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. Partly as a result of Clarkson's continued efforts, Viscount Castlereagh in 1815 secured the condemnation of the trade by the other European powers, though at the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818) measures for enforcing international abolition were discussed without effect. When the Anti-Slavery Society was founded (1823), Clarkson was chosen a vice president.

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