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Thomas Clarkson believed that Africans were being forced into slavery in the West Indies, but could he prove it to the British public?
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By Willem van de Velde (1603-1707), via the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Samuel Pepys ran into a little knot of seafaring men at the Exchange, who told him some hair-raising tales about their time in Algiers.
© Sara Raymer, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The Russian Consul in New York issued a stern rebuke to those trying to break Britain’s ban on slave-trading by sailing under his nation’s colours.
By Walker and Boutall (fl. 1887-1900), via the Wellcome Collection and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
John Wesley called for a world in which no one was forced to go against his conscience or to serve against his will.
John Raphael Smith (1752–1812) after George Morland (1763–1804), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
John Wesley wondered how those involved in the slave trade would feel if the tables were ever turned on them.
© Kieth Edkins, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Two years into America’s Civil War, cotton workers in Manchester defied current opinion among politicians and the press, and pledged their support to the Union.
© John Topping, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
In replying to a letter of support from Manchester’s cotton workers, US President Lincoln showed how deeply touched he had been.