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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
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  • Date Published: September 2010
  • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
  • format: Multiple copy pack
  • isbn: 9781108020022

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  • Thomas 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.

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    • Date Published: September 2010
    • format: Multiple copy pack
    • isbn: 9781108020022
    • length: 1198 pages
    • dimensions: 324 x 250 x 68 mm
    • weight: 1.92kg
    • contains: 5 b/w illus.
    • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
  • Table of Contents

    Volume 1:
    1. Introduction
    2. Those who favoured the cause of the Africans previously to 1787
    3. Forerunners continued to 1787
    4. Second, of the Quakers in England
    5. Third, of the Quakers in America
    6. Facility of junction between the members of these three different classes
    7. Fourth consists of Dr. Peckard, then of the author
    8. Fourth class continued - Langton, Baker and others
    9. Fourth class continued - Sheldon, Mackworth and others
    10. Fourth class continued - author enlarges his knowledge
    11. History of the preceding classes, and of their junction
    12. Author endeavours to do away with the charge of ostentation
    13. Proceedings of the Committee
    14. Author visits Bristol to collect information
    15. Mode of procuring and paying seamen in that trade
    16. Author meets with Alexander Falconbridge
    17. Visits Liverpool
    18. Manner of procuring and paying seamen at Liverpool in the slave-trade
    19. Author proceeds to Manchester
    20. Labours of the Committee during the author's journey
    21. Further labours of the Committee to February 1788
    22. Progress of the cause to the middle of May
    23. Progress to the middle of July. Volume 2:
    1. Continuation from June 1788 to July 1789
    2. Continuation from July 1789 to July 1790
    3. Continuation from July 1790 to July 1791
    4. Continuation from July 1791 to July 1792
    5. Continuation from July 1792 to July 1793
    6. Continuation from July 1793 to July 1794
    7. Continuation from July 1794 to July 1799
    8. Continuation from July 1799 to July 1805
    9. Continuation from July 1805 to July 1806
    10. Continuation from July 1806 to July 1807.

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    Thomas Clarkson

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