Thomas Clarkson and the Anti‐Slavery Society

Abstract

In a previous issue of Serials Review, I described the three international organizations that I then assumed were the principal ones concerned with the protection of threatened tribal peoples throughout the world. I now know that I had overlooked one very important organization that is in fact coterminous with the organized effort to eradicate slavery. Until very recently, that organization was known as the Anti‐Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights. Gale's Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations places the foundation of this society in 1839, a date that is off by fifty‐one years, inasmuch as it can be shown that the society under at least two earlier names is continuous with the society that emerged, reorganized, redefined, and renamed in 1839 and with the society that remains vigorously active today.

Citation

Gray, R.A. (1993), "Thomas Clarkson and the Anti‐Slavery Society", Reference Services Review, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049200