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  1. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

    The first of many anti-slavery tracts written by the Quaker Thomas Clarkson. This one began as a prize-winning Latin dissertation submitted to Cambridge University in 1785. In it he examines the history of slavery, the slave trade, and the nature of slavery in the European colonies.

  2. Thomas Clarkson

    Thomas Clarkson was an abolitionist, one of the first effective publicists of the English movement against the slave trade and against slavery in the colonies. Clarkson was …

  3. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human …

    The essay offers a powerful critique of colonial slavery and presents a detailed historical account of the practices and philosophies surrounding human enslavement. The opening of the essay establishes a …

  4. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

    This 1786 publication is a translation of a prizewinning Latin essay written by Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846) at Cambridge the previous year. Clarkson's deep research into the Atlantic slave …

  5. Thomas Clarkson

    Encouraged by publication of Clarkson's essay, an informal committee was set up between small groups from the petitioning Quakers, Clarkson and others, with the goal of lobbying members of parliament (MPs). In May 1787, they formed the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The Committee included Granville Sharp as chairman and Josiah Wedgwood, as well as Clarks…

  6. The Project Gutenberg eBook of An essay on the slavery and …

    This Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves, contains so many important truths on the colonial slavery, and has come so home to the planters, (being written …

  7. An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human …

    An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species : particularly the African ; translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785. by. …

  8. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human …

    An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African in Three ... by. Thomas Clarkson. Publication date. 1804. Topics.