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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."([http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/origins.htm]). | "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."([http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/origins.htm]). | ||
Another friend of Clarkson's by the name of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the highly renowned Wedgwood pottery company, produced what was to become one of the most influential anti-slavery symbols of all time - pottery medallions featuring a slave in chains with the simple but effective question: ''Am I not a man and a brother?''. According to Clarkson, ladies wore these medaillions "in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom". | Another friend of Clarkson's by the name of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the highly renowned Wedgwood pottery company, produced what was to become one of the most influential anti-slavery symbols of all time - pottery medallions featuring a slave in chains with the simple but effective question: ''Am I not a man and a brother?''. According to Clarkson, ladies wore these medaillions "in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom". | ||
Critics of slavery employed all manner of strategies to persuade the American public and its leadership to end this "peculiar institution" | Critics of slavery employed all manner of strategies to persuade the American public and its leadership to end this "peculiar institution". | ||
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]). | |||
==== Abolitionists vs. Gradualists ==== | ==== Abolitionists vs. Gradualists ==== | ||