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:To expose the barbarity of the slave trade, Clarkson gathered evidence, such as the tools of torture used on slave ships, and interviewed thousands of slave ship sailors. He also developed powerful allies, such as M.P. William Wilberforce, who used his political influence to lobby for abolitionist causes in Parliament. Clarkson, Granville, Wilberforce, and other activists began spreading their message. They published protest pamphlets, raised funds, and organized public lectures and rallies. Twenty years after the founding of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, their work was partially rewarded by the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. This act prohibited Great Britain from participating in the transatlantic slave trade ([http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/origins.htm]).

Critics of slavery employed all manner of strategies to persuade the American public and its leadership to end this "peculiar institution". Some favoured a less provocative, more "realist" or "reformist" approch, while others were more radical on the subject. The first group was often called "Gradualists", because they believed in advancing towards abolitionism through small steps, whereas the real abolitionists (sometimes called "Immediatists") believed that - since slavery was an extreme sin - it needed immediate eradication.