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Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson
(28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846), 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
(also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) and helped achieve passage of the
Slave Trade Act
of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves.
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