Inventory of the Thomas Clarkson Papers, 1787-1847

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Inventory of the Thomas Clarkson Papers, 1787-1847

The Huntington Library

San Marino, California

Contact Information

Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: lgarcia@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554

Processed by:: Huntington Library staff
Date Completed:: Aug. 1954

Descriptive Summary

Title: Thomas Clarkson Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1787-1847

Creator: Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846

Extent: Number of pieces: 210

Repository: The Huntington Library

San Marino, California 91108

Abstract: The papers include drafts of Clarkson's letters to the Comte de Mirabeau and others on slavery; several reports and speeches; and letters addressed to Clarkson from persons in the United States and Great Britain regarding anti-slavery activities.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Provenance

Larger portion purchased from Eric M. Bonner, 1949; further purchase from Maggs Bros. (Cat. 811, items 298-300), 1952.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Thomas Clarkson Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Biography

Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), the English philanthropist, devoted the major portion of his life to the cause of the abolition of slavery. His energy in organizing anti-slavery societies throughout England helped to arouse the attention of the English people to the inhumanity of the institution of slavery. The present small group of papers may be looked upon as a supplement to the collection of Clarkson Papers in the British Museum (Add. Mss. 41262-41267). Both groups of papers were consulted by Earl Leslie Griggs in the preparation of his biography of Clarkson published in 1936.

Subject matter

I. Slavery
- A. In Africa
  - 1. Slave trade
  - 2. Sierra Leone colony
- B. In Great Britain: the activities of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- C. In the United States
II. Thomas Clarkson and family

Persons represented by 3 or more pieces

BEAUMONT, John: 8 pieces
BULLER, Charles: 3 pieces
CHAPMAN, Maria Weston: 5 pieces
CLARKSON, Thomas: 48 pieces
GRÉGOIRE, Henri, Constitutional Bp. of Blois: 4 pieces
JAY, William: 3 pieces
SMITH, Gerrit: 6 pieces
SOUL, Joseph: 4 pieces
STURGE, Joseph: 15 pieces
TAPPAN, Lewis: 3 pieces
WRIGHT, Henry Clarke: 8 pieces

Some important or interesting items

CLARKSON, Thomas. Account of efforts, 1807-1824, to abolish the foreign slave trade and slavery in the British colonies. c.1839
_____ Speech used in forming anti-slavery committees. 1823-1824
_____ A letter to the Clergy and slave holders in the Southern parts of the United States of America. 1841
_____ To Comte de Mirabeau. Nov. 13, 1789. The story of an African sold into slavery
_____ To Roberts Vaux. Mar. 8, 1819. Regarding the settlement of free negroes from the United States in Haiti.
_____ Report on Sierra Leone. c.1792
CRIPPS, William Buck. New Brunswick, Nov. 30, 1822. Re: conditions of settlers and prospects for newcomers
GARRISON, William Lloyd. Aug. 19, 1846. On slavery in the U.S.
JAY, John. Sep. 1, 1788. To Thomas Clarkson, making him an honorary member of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves
KEY, Francis Scott. Nov. 8, 1817. Re: Americans who plan to visit Sierra Leone
PENNINGTON, J. W. C. Sep. 25, 1844. A free negro minister's report
SHARP, Granville. Oct. 13, 1788. On the formation of the settlement at Sierra Leone
THOMAS, Philip Evan. To James Cropper. Baltimore, Aug. 22, 1822. Re: slave labor in the U. S.
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. July 10, 1844. Progress of anti-slavery movements in the United States
WORDSWORTH, Dorothy. To Catherine (Buck) Clarkson. May 10, 1808

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