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See also:CLARKSON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (176o-1846) , See also:English See also:anti-See also:slavery agitator, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:March 176o, at Wisbeach, in See also:Cambridgeshire, where his See also:father was headmaster of the See also:free See also:grammar school. He was educated at St See also:Paul's school and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge. Having taken the first See also:place among the See also:middle bachelors as Latin essayist, he succeeded in 1785 in gaining a similar See also:honour among the See also:senior bachelors. The subject appointed by the See also:vice-See also:chancellor, Dr Peckhard, was one in which he was himself deeply interested—Anne liceat invitos in servitutem dare? (Is it right to make men slaves against their will ?). In preparing for this See also:essay Clarkson consulted a number of See also:works on See also:African slavery, of which the See also:chief was Benezet's See also:Historical Survey of New See also:Guinea; and the atrocities of which he read affected him so deeply that he determined to devote all his energies to effect the abolition of the slave See also:trade, and gave up his intention of entering the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church.
His first measure was to publish, with additions, an English See also:translation of his See also:prize essay (See also:June 1786). He then commenced to See also:search in all quarters for See also:information concerning slavery. He soon discovered that the cause had already been taken up to some extent by others, most of whom belonged to the Society of See also:Friends, and among the chief of whom were See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Dillwyn, See also:Joseph See also:Wood and See also:Granville See also:Sharp. With the aid of these gentlemen, a See also:committee of twelve was formed in May 1787 to do all that was possible to effect the abolition of the slave trade. Meanwhile Clarkson had also gained the sympathy of See also:Wilberforce, See also:Whitbread, See also:Sturge and several other men of See also:influence. Travel-See also:ling from See also:port to port, he now commenced to collect a large See also:mass of See also:evidence; and much of it was embodied in his See also:Summary View of the Slave Trade, and the Probable Consequences of its Abolition, which, with a number of other anti-slavery tracts, was published by the committee. See also:Pitt, See also:Grenville, See also:Fox and See also:Burke looked favourably on the See also:movement; in May 1788 Pitt introduced a See also:parliamentary discussion on the subject, and See also:Sir W. See also:Dolben brought forward a See also:bill providing that the number of slaves carried in a See also:vessel should be proportional to its See also:tonnage. A number of See also:Liverpool and See also:Bristol merchants obtained permission from the See also:House to be heard by See also:council against the bill, but on the 18th of June it passed the See also:Commons. Soon after Clarkson published an Essay on the Impolicy of the Slave Trade; and for two months he was continuously engaged in travelling that he might meet men who were personally acquainted with the facts of the trade. From their lips he collected a considerable amount of evidence; but only nine could be prevailed upon to promise to appear before the privy council. Meanwhile other witnesses had been obtained by Wilberforce and the committee, and on the 12th of May 1789 the former led a debate on the subject in the House of Commons, in which he was seconded by Burke and supported by Pitt and Fox.
It was now the beginning of the See also:French Revolution, and in the See also:hope that he might arouse the French to sweep away slavery with other abuses, Clarkson crossed to See also:Paris, where he remained six months. He found See also:Necker See also:head of the See also:government, and obtained from him some sympathy but little help. See also:Mirabeau, however, with his assistance, prepared a speech against slavery, to be delivered before the See also:National See also:Assembly, and the See also:Marquis de la Fayette entered enthusiastically into his views. During this visit Clarkson met a deputation of negroes from Santo Domingo, who had come to See also:France to See also:present a See also:petition to the National Assembly, desiring to be placed on an equal footing with the whites; but the See also:storm of the Revolution permitted no substantial success to be achieved. Soon after his return See also:home he engaged in a search, the apparent hopelessness of which finely displays his unshrinking laboriousness and his passionate
See also:enthusiasm. He desired to find some one who had himself witnessed the See also:capture of the negroes in See also:Africa; and a friend having met by See also:chance a See also:man-of-See also:war's-man who had done so, Clarkson, though ignorant of the name and address of the sailor, set out in search of him, and actually discovered him. His last tour was undertaken in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:form anti-slavery committees in all the See also:principal towns. At length, in the autumn of 1794, his See also:health gave way, and he was obliged to cease active See also:work. He now occupied his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:writing a See also:History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which appeared in 1808. The bill for the abolition of the trade became See also:law in 1807; but it was still necessary to secure the assent of the other See also:powers to its principle, To obtain this was, under pressure of the public See also:opinion created by Clarkson and his friends, one of the See also:main See also:objects of See also:British See also:diplomacy at the See also:Congress of See also:Vienna, and in See also:February 1875 the trade was condemned by the powers. The question of concerting See also:practical See also:measures for its abolition was raised at the Congress of See also:Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818, but without result. On this occasion Clarkson personally presented an address to the See also:emperor See also:Alexander I., who communicated it to the sovereigns of See also:Austria, and See also:Prussia. In 1823 the Anti-Slavery Society was formed, and Clarkson was one of its vice-presidents. He was for some time See also:blind from See also:cataract; but several years before his See also:death on the 26th of See also:September 1846, his sight was restored.
Besides the works already mentioned, he published the See also:Portraiture of Quakerism (18o6), See also:Memoirs of William See also:Penn (1813), Researches, Antediluvian, Patriarchal and Historical (1836), intended as a history of the interference of See also:Providence for man's spiritual See also:good, and Strictures on several of the remarks concerning himself made in the See also:Life of Wilberforce, in which his claim as originator of the anti-slavery movement is denied.
See the lives by Thomas See also:Elmes (1876) and Thomas See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor (1839).
End of Article: CLARKSON, THOMAS (176o-1846)
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