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Thomas Clarkson’s Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species was one of the important early texts of British abolitionism. Clarkson presents slavery and the Atlantic slave trade not as distant economic institutions but as systems built on coercion, violence, family separation, and
Thomas Clarkson’s history of the British campaign against the African slave trade tells the story of abolition as a long political struggle rather than a sudden act of moral enlightenment. Clarkson describes the evidence gathered about the slave trade, the experiences of people who opposed it
Thomas Clarkson was one of the central figures of the British abolitionist movement, and this work argues that slavery in the British colonies was both morally indefensible and practically capable of being brought to an end. Clarkson’s method combines moral reasoning with evidence
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