This essay was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785 and was influential for Clarkson’s further career. Thomas Clarks

"An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African" by Thomas Clarkson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide r

The first of many anti-slavery tracts written by the Quaker Thomas Clarkson. This one began as a prize-winning Latin dissertation submitted to Cambridge Univers