Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarksonwas 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 Tradeand helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth28 March 1760
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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
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Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
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There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
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It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
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We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.