Author: Thomas TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
A Biographical Sketch of Thomas Clarkson ...
Author: Thomas TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This essay was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785 and was influential for Clarkson’s further career. Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was not only instrmuental in achieving the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves, but also campaigned for the abolition of slavery worldwide.
A Summary View of the Slave Trade
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A Biographical Sketch of Thomas Clarkson, M.A., with occasional brief strictures on the misrepresentations of him contained in the life of William Wilberforce; and a concise historical outline of the abolition of slavery
Author: Thomas Taylor (biographer of Cowper.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Bury the Chains
Author: Adam HochschildPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618619078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551113384
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
When abolitionists Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano published their essays on slavery in the late eighteenth century, they became key participants in one of the most important human rights campaigns in history. British abolitionism sought to expose the realities of transatlantic slavery in addition to asking politicians to help dehumanized Africans in the New World, and this edition brings together two major essays of the 1780s that were influential in the spread of the early abolitionist movement: Clarkson’s An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species and Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species. A critical introduction and extensive historical appendices on British and American slavery and abolitionism, featuring contemporary arguments for and against slavery, are also included.
Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
Author: David WalkerPublisher:
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Amazing Grace
Author: Eric MetaxasPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061863386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833. Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong. To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, HarperSanFrancisco and Bristol Bay Productions have joined together to commemorate the life of William Wilberforce with the feature-length film Amazing Grace and this companion biography, which provides a fuller account of the amazing life of this great man than can be captured on film. This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America.
Jeremy Clarkson
Author: Gwen RussellPublisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1843586126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Love him or loathe him, you cannot ignore him: Motoring aficionado, comic writer, TV presenter, engineering buff, journalist, author and unapologetic bon viveur, Jeremy Clarkson is one of Britain's most controversial personalities, and in this riveting and entertaining biography, frank views and hilariously candid anecdotes appear alongside the life story of the self-confessed Eurosceptic, chain-smoking petrol head. After a stint as a travelling salesman, Clarkson set up his own press agency, and soon found fame and fortune with BBC's Top Gear. Notoriously hit in the face awith a banana meringue pie on receipt of his honorary degree, he has been accused of calling cyclists 'muesli freaks' and BMW employees 'Nazis'. From causing huge disruption, to defending the rights of drivers, to fisticuffs with Piers Morgan, this is the true story of a colourful life lived at breakneck speed.