The history of the rise progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the african slave trade by the british parliament.

Books boeken thomas clarkson cambridge university press paperback september 2010: Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846 was a leading campaigner against slavery and the African slave trade. After graduating from St.

Johns College Cambridge in 1783 Clarkson with Granville Sharp 1735-1813 founded the Committee for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in 1787 which increased popular support for abolition and was the main campaigner behind the abolition of the slave trade. These volumes first published in 1808 contain a unique contemporary account of the abolition movement from one of its major leaders.

Clarkson describes in great detail the Quaker background to the abolitionist movement and the parliamentary debates leading to the Slave Trade Act of 1807. The contemporary arguments both in support and in opposition to abolition and the researches and actions of the abolition movements members are described creating an important historical record of the movement.

Volume 2 describes the campaign from June 1788 until March 1808. .



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