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Thomas Clarkson

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Profession
Activist
Died
Sep 26, age 86
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
England
About
English abolitionist who was a leader in the efforts to ban slave trade in the British Empire. He is a founding member of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Thanks to his, and his colleagues efforts, the Slave Trade Act of 1807 was passed, effectively ending British trade in slaves.
Family
He married his wife Catherine in 1796 and they had one son together.

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