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

A unique contemporary record of the campaign to abolish the African slave trade, first published in 1808.

Thomas Clarkson (Author)

9781108020015, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 September 2010

616 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 3.5 x 14 cm, 0.77 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]