THOMAS CLARKSON, THE FRIEND OF SLAVES. This item is unavailable.THOMAS CLARKSON, THE FRIEND OF SLAVES

Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.6 in., pp. 210, [2] (advertising). Illustrated with black and white fontispiece, additional plates, and and a fold-out diagaram of how to slaves were fit into a ship for transport. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Publisher's red top-stain. Light shelfwear with a touch of fading to spine. Light spotting to fore-edge.Partial bookseller stocker to rear pastedown. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was a leading British abolitionist, researcher, and campaigner who dedicated his life to ending the transatlantic slave trade and, later, slavery itself. Known for traveling thousands of miles to collect evidence and eyewitness testimonies, he was instrumental in passing the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.