Clarkson, Thomas
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Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846). Anti-slavery campaigner. Born in Wisbech (Cambs.), son of a schoolmaster, Clarkson was educated at St Paul's School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he became concerned about slavery. In 1787 he helped found a committee for the suppression of the slave trade and lectured on behalf of the parliamentary campaign for abolition until his health collapsed in 1794. He resumed lecturing in 1805 until the ending of the trade in the British empire in 1807. In 1818 he took the case for international abolition to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle. With William
Wilberforce he was a vice-president of the
anti-slavery society (founded 1823), and after the act was carried in 1833 for the gradual abolition of slavery in the British empire, he retained his concern for wider abolition and appeared on the platform at the 1840 international Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
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Head quits Thomas Clarkson Community College.
Newspaper article from: Fenland Citizen (Wisbech, England); 6/30/2008; 679 words
; THOMAS Clarkson Community College headteacher John...from the former Queen's School to Thomas Clarkson Community College. In a statement...he chooses to do in the future. "Thomas Clarkson Community College is entering a crucial...
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The British Slave Ship 'Brookes' (1789) ; GREAT WORKS ++ Thomas Clarkson et al ++ Liverpool Slavery Museum; British Museum etc
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Act of 1788. It was produced by Thomas Clarkson and his allies in the Committee...loaded slave ship. In London, Clarkson and his colleagues applied its...horror upon all who saw it," Clarkson wrote. It became one of the first...
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Thomas Clarkson III Joins IPivot as Vice President of Marketing.
Business Wire; 4/5/1999; 674 words
; ...sites, is pleased to announce that Tom Clarkson III has joined the company as vice president of marketing on March 29, 1999. Clarkson brings nearly 20 years of high-tech...experience to IPivot. Most recently, Clarkson was a founder and vice president of marketing...
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Thomas L. Clarkson Sr.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/8/1986; 305 words
; Thomas L. Clarkson Sr., 80, a retired supervisor for Western Electric, died yesterday...his retirement in 1971. Survivors include his wife; Anne, two sons, Thomas L. and John M., a daughter, Mary P.; two brothers, Leonard A...
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NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ISSUES OPINION REGARDING THOMAS F. ADCOX V. CLARKSON BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/15/2009; 658 words
; ...issued the following opinion: THOMAS F. ADCOX, Employee, Plaintiff, v. CLARKSON BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY...Factual Background Plaintiff Thomas F. Adcox was born in 1947...while employed by Defendant Clarkson Brothers Construction Company...
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CLARKSON UNIVERSITY REAPPOINTS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/22/2006; 700+ words
; Clarkson University issued the following news...from Princeton University. He joined Clarkson University as the Robert A. Plane...funding into the University, " remarked Thomas C. Young, Clarkson University Provost. "We are fortunate...
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The Economy, Clarkson and Sandstone
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...million years. The formation of Clarkson University has taken, so far...stone and the test of time of a Clarkson education. As you feel the sandstone...and the values from our namesake Thomas S. Clarkson for innovation, entrepreneurship...
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SIX YOUNG ALUMNI HONORED BY CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/16/2007; 700+ words
; Clarkson University issued the following...Marnocha is a member of the Clarkson University Business Leadership...Ind., with her husband, Thomas. Kimberly O'Toole Kimberly...electrical engineering from Clarkson in 2002 and is currently pursuing...
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UNIVERSITY SENIOR DANIEL MARKER HONORED WITH FREDERICA CLARKSON AWARD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/14/2006; 653 words
; ...received the Frederica Clarkson Award during Clarkson University's 113th commencement ceremony on...1921, was a bequest in the will of Frederica Clarkson, sister of Thomas S. Clarkson, for whom the University is named. Marker...
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Board of Trustees Statement: The U.S.A. Economy and Clarkson University
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/20/2008; 579 words
; ...edu/news/view.php?id=2120 with the Clarkson Community earlier this month that includes a metaphor...about the Potsdam sandstone mined in quarries of Clarkson namesake Thomas S. Clarkson and the resiliency of the education enterprise...
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Thomas Clarkson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846, English abolitionist. He devoted most of his life to agitation against slavery, and the voluminous information...
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Clarkson, Thomas
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846) British philanthropist. A strong opponent...passed prohibiting British participation in the SLAVE TRADE . In 1823 Clarkson became a leading member of the Anti-Slavery Society, which saw its...
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Ottobah Cugoano
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...abolitionist leaders Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. Cugoano was a friend of Olaudah...theological arguments were coached by Clarkson or Sharp, while his friend Equiano...career. In 1791 he was involved in Clarkson's scheme for recruiting Africans...
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William Wilberforce
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Wilberforce was approached by the antislavery advocate Thomas Clarkson, who was already in touch with the abolitionist lawyer...Zachary Macaulay, E. J. Eliot, and James Stephen. Clarkson organized a propaganda campaign throughout the country...
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Airy, George Biddell
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...this connection, especially becaue of the resulting acquaintances, including Thomas Clarkson, the abolitionist, who could help his career. It was through Clarkson and Charles Musgrave, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, that he was entered...
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