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Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
..., Thomas ( 1760–1846 ) British anti-slavery campaigner An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species ( 1786 ) Non-Fiction A Portraiture of Quakerism ( 1806 ) Non-Fiction The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade ( 1808 ) ...
Clarkson, Thomas (b. 28 March 1760) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
..., Thomas ( b. 28 March 1760 ; d. 26 September 1846 ), an English publicist and leader in the abolitionist movement. Thomas Clarkson single-mindedly devoted his life to ending the slave trade and slavery. Clarkson was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. His father, the Reverend John Clarkson (who died suddenly when Thomas was only six years old) was headmaster of the Wisbech Free Grammar School; his mother, Anne Ward, came from a genteel background. From an early age Clarkson was raised in the Anglican faith, which was to inspire his tireless...
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
..., Thomas ( 1760–1846 ) British philanthropist . A strong opponent of slavery, he became a founder member of the Committee for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. He collected much information about the trade and conditions on slave ships, which was published in a pamphlet and used by William Wilberforce in his parliamentary campaign for abolition. In 1807 an Act was passed prohibiting British participation in the slave trade . In 1823 Clarkson became a leading member of the Anti-Slavery Society, which saw its efforts rewarded with the 1833 ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., Thomas ( 1760–1846 ), anti-slave-trade agitator . In 1787 he was involved in the establishment of a Christian settlement for poor Blacks in Sierra Leone and, with some leading Quakers and with W. Wilberforce , he formed a group which pressed in the House of Commons for the abolition of the slave-trade in the British Empire (achieved in 1807...
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A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
..., Thomas ( 1760–1846 ). Anti‐slavery campaigner. Born in Wisbech (Cambs.), Clarkson was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became concerned about slavery. In 1787 he helped found a committee for the suppression of the slave trade and lectured on abolition until his health collapsed in 1794 . He resumed lecturing in 1805 until the ending of the trade in the British empire in 1807 . With William Wilberforce he was a vice‐president of the Anti‐Slavery Society (founded 1823 ), and after the Act was carried in 1833 for the...
Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846) Reference library
Edward Royle
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
..., Thomas ( 1760–1846 ) . Anti-slavery campaigner. Born in Wisbech (Cambs.), son of a schoolmaster, Clarkson was educated at St Paul’s School and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he became concerned about slavery. In 1787 he helped found a committee for the suppression of the slave trade and lectured on behalf of the parliamentary campaign for abolition until his health collapsed in 1794 . He resumed lecturing in 1805 until the ending of the trade in the British empire in 1807 . In 1818 he took the case for international abolition to the...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
..., Thomas ( 1760–1846 ), *abolitionist and *philanthropist . Serious-minded son of a curate schoolmaster, Clarkson won the University of Cambridge prize in Latin for an essay on *slavery [6] in 1785 . From this time onwards he was like a man possessed, earning S. T. *Coleridge 's ambivalent accolade of ‘the Moral Steam-Engine, or the Giant with one idea’. Believing himself called to the task of ending Britain's involvement in slavery, Clarkson joined his prodigious labours to those, such as the *Quakers , who were already making their protests...
Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846) Reference library
John Coffey
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...of the cause. His indefatigable activism over many decades prompted Coleridge to call him ‘a moral steam-engine’, while others hailed him ‘the holy apostle of emancipation’. John Coffey Clarkson’s Correspondence with Henry Christophe, King of Haiti , ed. E. L. Griggs and C. H. Prator (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1952). E. Gibson Wilson , Thomas Clarkson: A Biography (1989). See also bibl. to slavery . H. Brogan in ODNB (2011): < https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5545...
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John Gilmore
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
..., Thomas ( 1760–1846 ). Campaigner against the slave trade and slavery. Clarkson was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1783 , but remained to continue his studies in preparation for becoming an Anglican clergyman. In 1785 he decided to enter a university contest for a Latin essay. His aim was simply academic prestige, but the topic, set by the university's Vice‐Chancellor, Peter Peckard , was Anne liceat invitos in servitutem dare? [‘Is it lawful to make men slaves against their will?’]. Clarkson won the prize, but...
Thomas Clarkson
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David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... ( 1979 ). Studies of particular aspects of demography included J. Cornwall , ‘English Population in the Early Sixteenth Century’, Economic History Review , 2nd ser., 23/1 ( 1970 ), Peter Laslett and Richard Wall (eds), Household and Family in Past Time ( 1972 ), L. A. Clarkson , Death, Disease and Famine in Pre‐Industrial England ( 1975 ), David Levine , ‘The Reliability of Parochial Registration and the Representativeness of Family Reconstitution’, Population Studies , 30 ( 1976 ), John Hatcher , Plague, Population and the English Economy,...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...*Wilkes and destined to become still more pronounced with the *corresponding societies movement in the early 1790s. The London committee, though spiritually devout, consisted of practical businessmen who quickly appreciated the need for a national, popular campaign. In Thomas *Clarkson they found the ideal peripatetic agent, ceaselessly spreading the abolitionist word throughout Britain—often at risk to himself. Abolition was above all else a brilliant propaganda campaign which used the printed word and a host of graphic and material images to broadcast...
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Peter McClure and Patrick Hanks
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...and wilkins . Names with final ‑son , such as dixon , jackson , and williamson , are especially characteristic of northern of England and Lowland Scotland. Here we also find a small number of patronymics based on a common occupational term or occupational surname, such as clarkson , cookson , and smithson . English and Scottish family names ending in ‑ son are mostly quite late in formation (from the late 14th century well into the 15th century in England, often even later in Scotland) and were borne almost exclusively by the lower class of minor free...
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