Memorial to an Abolitionist, Cambridgeshire

Photograph taken 16 February 2005 © Historic England Archive/Mr Peter D. Dewar ref: 48204

Memorial to Thomas Clarkson , Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Clarkson was a leading abolitionist who travelled the country investigating the conditions on slave ships, often at great personal risk.

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Cambridgeshire Wisbech

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Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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Gravestone of Scipio Africanus, 1720, St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. The gravestone bears an interesting inscription giving an insight into how black people were thought of at this time in history.

Memorial to an Abolitionist, Cambridgeshire

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