What is Thomas Clarkson?
{{Infobox person |name = Thomas Clarkson |image = Thomas Clarkson by Carl Frederik von Breda.jpg |alt = |caption = Thomas Clarkson by [[Carl Frederik von Breda]], painting in the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]] |birth_date = {{Birth date|1760|03|28|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Wisbech]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England |death_date = {{Death date and age|1846|09|26|1760|03|28|df=y}} |death_place = [[Playford, Suffolk|Playford]], [[Suffolk]], England |nationality = English |known_for = [[Abolitionism]] |alma_mater = [[St John's College, Cambridge]] }} '''Thomas Clarkson''' (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846) was an English [[abolitionist]]. He helped start the ''Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade''.<ref>Clarkson, Thomas 1808. ''The history of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the slave–trade by the British Parliament''. Philadelphia: James P. Parke.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Clarkson, Thomas}} [[Category:1760 births]] [[Category:1846 deaths]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:British abolitionists]] [[Category:English activists]] [[Category:English Anglicans]] [[Category:People from Cambridgeshire]] {{history-stub}}