Thomas Clarkson
Born on 28th of March 1760
Died on 28th of September 1846
Born 1760. Died 1846 - English antislavery campaigner.
Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge. With William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp formed an antislavery society in 1787. Campaigned for abolition of slavery in the colonies.
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