Publisher's Synopsis
This study of Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), architect of the campaign to abolish the African slave trade, describes how he pitted his moral outrage against powerful vested interests and public indifference and mobilized the nations's conscience.;Drawing on various sources, the author illustrates how Clarkson lived to see the slave trade and slavery outlawed by the British Parliament and became the father figure of the succeeding American struggle. The author also wrote "John Clarkson and the African Adventure", "The Loyal Blacks" and "A West African Cook Book".
