page_title: List of abolitionist forerunners
section_title: Clarkson's list
hierarchical_section_title: List of abolitionist forerunners / Clarkson's list
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: historyofrisepro01clar (find matches) Title: The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British parliament Year: 1808 (1800s) Authors: Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846 Subjects: Slave trade Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: T /,. faa T.i Text Appearing After Image: ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE, 259 CHAPTER XL TJic preceding lustofy of the different classes ofthe Jbrerutim rs and coadjutors, to ike time of the formation of the committer, collected into onelew h/ means of a map—Explanation of thismap—and observations upon it. As the preceding history of the differentclasses of the forerunners and coadjutors,to the time of their junction, or to theformation of the committee, as just ex-plained, may be thought interesting bymany, I have endeavoured, by means ofthe annexed map, so to bring it before thereader, that he may comprehend the wholeof it at a single view- The figure beginning at A and reachingdown to X represents the first class of fore-runners and coadjutors up to the year 1787,as consisting of so many springs or rivulets,which assisted in making and swelling thetorrent which swept away the Slave-trade. The figure from B to C and from C toX represents the second class, or that or:li£ Quakers in England, up ,to the same S 2 time. 260 T Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Thomas Clarkson, the pioneering abolitionist, prepared a "map" of the "streams" of "forerunners and coadjutors" of the abolitionist movement, which he published in his work, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament published in 1808. The map shows streams with various branches that led to the late-eighteenth-century movement that convinced the British Parliament to ban the slave trade. The list below is taken from Clarkson's map.
  No women appear to be on the list, although many in fact were involved in the movement including Hannah More, Joanna Baillie, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. James Oglethorpe does not appear on the list, even though he and other Georgia Trustees prohibited slavery in the Province of Georgia. Oglethorpe later collaborated in opposing the slave trade with Granville Sharp, whom Clarkson describes as "the father of the cause in England". Slavery as both a moral and legal concern arose in the early days of the Georgia Colony, which prohibited slavery in 1735 and was challenged by neighboring South Carolina, a slaveholding society.
context_section_description: List of "forerunners and coajutors" on map:
caption: Clarkson's map
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