Thomas Clarkson
English abolitionist (1760-1846) · Writers · Died at 86
Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which ended British trade in slaves.
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The Thomas Clarkson Monument at Wadesmill![Plan of the British Slave Ship Brooks, 1788, carrying 454 slaves after the Slave Trade Act 1788. Previously it had transported 609 slaves and was 267 tons burden, making 2.3 slaves per ton.[18]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Slaveshipposter.jpg/1280px-Slaveshipposter.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Plan of the British Slave Ship Brooks, 1788, carrying 454 slaves after the Slave Trade Act 1788. Previously it had transported 609 slaves and was 267 tons burden, making 2.3 slaves per ton.[18]
Print of Clarkson, c. 1840, after Henry Room; on the scroll is "Slavery abolished; Jamaica; August 1st 1838" (the date the "apprenticeships" of former slaves ended)
Playford Hall, the Clarksons' home from 1816![Clarkson is the central figure in this 1841 painting by Benjamin Haydon of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention.[24] Move your cursor to identify his relatives and other figures (or click icon to enlarge).](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/The_Anti-Slavery_Society_Convention%2C_1840_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg/1280px-The_Anti-Slavery_Society_Convention%2C_1840_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Clarkson is the central figure in this 1841 painting by Benjamin Haydon of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention.[24] Move your cursor to identify his relatives and other figures (or click icon to enlarge).
The Clarkson Memorial, Wisbech
Anastatic print of Clarkson a few weeks before he died, drawn by William Dillwyn Sims
