Buch, Englisch, 1198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1542 g
Buch, Englisch, 1198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1542 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
ISBN: 978-1-108-02002-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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.
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Volume 1: 1. Introduction; 2. Those who favoured the cause of the Africans previously to 1787; 3. Forerunners continued to 1787; 4. Second, of the Quakers in England; 5. Third, of the Quakers in America; 6. Facility of junction between the members of these three different classes; 7. Fourth consists of Dr. Peckard, then of the author; 8. Fourth class continued - Langton, Baker and others; 9. Fourth class continued - Sheldon, Mackworth and others; 10. Fourth class continued - author enlarges his knowledge; 11. History of the preceding classes, and of their junction; 12. Author endeavours to do away with the charge of ostentation; 13. Proceedings of the Committee; 14. Author visits Bristol to collect information; 15. Mode of procuring and paying seamen in that trade; 16. Author meets with Alexander Falconbridge; 17. Visits Liverpool; 18. Manner of procuring and paying seamen at Liverpool in the slave-trade; 19. Author proceeds to Manchester; 20. Labours of the Committee during the author's journey; 21. Further labours of the Committee to February 1788; 22. Progress of the cause to the middle of May; 23. Progress to the middle of July. Volume 2: 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.
