“We cannot suppose that God has made an order of beings, with such capacities and powers as negroes are possessed of, to be reduced by another part of his creation to the situation of brutes.”

About Thomas Clarkson

Activist • British

Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He dedicated his life to the cause after winning a Latin essay competition at the University of...