Petition of Thomas Clarkson (Anti-Slavery Reformer) to Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor General of Canada, on the subject of giving asylum to slaves who escaped from the United States : Playford Hall, Ipswich : ms., 1843 Sept. 6.

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Petition of Thomas Clarkson (Anti-Slavery Reformer) to Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor General of Canada, on the subject of giving asylum to slaves who escaped from the United States : Playford Hall, Ipswich : ms., 1843 Sept. 6.

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Signed portrait of William Clarkson enclosed.

4 p. ; 34 cm.

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Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846

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Philanthropist. Entered St John's 1780. B.A. 1783. Clarkson won the members prize for Latin essay in 1785, the subject being a question 'anne liceat invitos in servitutem dare?' ('is it lawful to make slaves of others against their will?') This contest determined the course of the rest of his life. The essay was read in the Senate House to much applause in June 1785, and published by James Phillips in June 1786. He met William Wilberforce in 1786 and co-founded a committee for the suppr...

Ogden, C.K. (Charles Kay), 1889-1957

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The library of C.K. Odgen, Great Britain, was purchased for the University of California in 1957. The approximately 74,000 volumes were distributed to various UC campuses, with 6,213 to UC Berkeley. These were distributed in the General Library, including the Moffitt Undergraduate Library and the Rare Books and Special Collections Dept. Some titles determined to be UCB duplicates were transferred subsequently to other UC campuses. From the description of Charles Kay Ogden collection....