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  3. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      21 April 2011
      16 September 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511740138
      9781108020015
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511740138
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 616 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History
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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. Volume 2 describes the campaign from June 1788 until March 1808.

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