Person    | Male  Born 28/3/1760  Died 26/9/1846

Thomas Clarkson

Categories: Race Issues

Leading campaigner against the slave trade. A founding member of The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1787, whose work was later taken over by the Anti-Slavery Society.

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Buxton Memorial Fountain

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