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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Thomas Clarkson
Born: March 28, 1760
Died: September 26, 1846 (aged 86)
Bio: Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.
Known for:
- A portraiture of Quakerism (1806)