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The Making and Remaking of an Abolitionist

Thomas Clarkson and the Struggle against Transatlantic Slavery

Av John Oldfield

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As writer and grassroots campaigner, Thomas Clarkson was a central figure in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century anti-slavery movement. In this first biography of Clarkson in over three decades, John Oldfield explores his career and afterlife, focussing, in particular, on his commitment to rational critiques of the 'inefficiency' and 'impolicy' of the slave trade and his creation of an anti-slavery public. As his monumental History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade amply demonstrates, like many white activists Clarkson took it as axiomatic that emancipation was in the gift of people like himself, studiously avoiding any mention of African struggle or self-determination. Though controversial, his History would play a key role in the shaping of British identity post-1807 and a version of the abolitionist past that we are still contending with today, which viewed the legacy of transatlantic slavery through the moral triumph of Abolition.
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Dr John Oldfield is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Hull, where he was Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation between 2013 and 2020. He is the author of Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery (1995) and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution (2013).

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'John Oldfield has brought his unparalleled knowledge of abolitionism to bear in this portrait of Thomas Clarkson. An uncompromising and indefatigable man, he took the struggle against the slave trade and slavery across the country from the 1780s to the 1820s, mobilising an antislavery public. Convinced of his capacity to speak for others, and of the need for white men to civilize Africans, an internationalist committed to work with governments, he fashioned himself anew in the changing times of the 1840s and remains a key figure in any attempt to grasp the complex history of Atlantic slavery and abolition.' Catherine Hall, author of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism

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