Record ID:
35028835 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50038536
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1760-03-28
  • Wisbech (England)
Death:
  • 1846-09-26
  • Suffolk (England)
  • Playford (Suffolk, England)
Associated with:
  • England
Fields of activity:
  • Slavery--Africa--History
Occupations:
  • Abolitionists Authors
Used for:
  • Clarkson, T. (Thomas), 1760-1846
  • Clarkson,, M. (Thomas), 1760-1846
Notes:
  • An essay on the impolicy of the African slave trade, 1788.
  • Thoughts on the necessity of improving the conditions of slaves in the British colonies ... 1824: t.p. (T. Clarkson, Esq.)
  • DNB (Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846)
  • MdU/G-K files (usage: M. Clarkson)
  • Wikipedia, March 21, 2014 (Thomas Clarkson (March 28, 1760 (Wisbech, England) - 26 September 1846 (Playford, Suffolk, England)) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire; founded The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slavery; the key speaker at the Anti-Slavery Society (today known as Anti-Slavery International) conference in London, which campaigned to end slavery in other countries, 1840) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Clarkson
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)877474
  • 000000028994
  • abv00088764
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC MdU NN ScU VJTL