PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM
OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
BY THOMAS CLARKSON (AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ESSAYS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SLAVE TRADE)
IN THREE VOLUMES
HARDBACKS (8vo) PRINTED BY R TAYLOR FOR LONGMAN HURST REESE AND ORME 1807 (EX LIBRARY. VOLUME 1 AND 2 REBOUND, VOLUME 3 IN ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDING BUT FRONT BOARD DETACHED)
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Thomas Clarkson was a leading activist in Britain against the transatlantic slave trade. He helped found the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and was a main force in bringing about the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which legally ended British trade in enslaved Africans.