The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British ParliamentThomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was a leading campaigner against slavery and the African slave trade. After graduating from St. John's 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 movement's members are described, creating an important historical record of the movement. Volume 2 describes the campaign from June 1788 until March 1808. |
Contents
Continuation from July 1789 to July 179OAuthor | 118 |
Continuation from July 1790 to July 1791Author | 194 |
Abolition resolved upon but not to commence till | 346 |
BristolNew and difficult situation theresuddenly | 415 |
Labours of the Committee during the Authors | 441 |
Further labours of the Committee to February 1788 | 458 |
Continuation from July 1793 to July 1794Author | 465 |
Progress of the cause to the middle of MayPeti | 469 |
Chap 7 Continuation from July 1794 to July 1799Various | 472 |
Progress to the middle of JulyBill to diminish | 592 |
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