Thomas Clarkson was an early founder of a group named for this action, and one early writer who advocated this action was Anthony Benezet.
Thomas Clarkson was an early founder of a group named for this action, and one early writer who advocated this action was Anthony Benezet. This action was advocated by one group following the Seven Years' War, because it felt it would relieve their hardship; that group, the (*) Quakers, formed a group promoting this action with Evangelicals like William Wilberforce. By 1830, British reformers no longer sought to perform this action gradually, and in 1833 this action took place officially in Britain. Argued for sometimes on religious grounds, for 10 points, identify this action which put an end to a certain trans-Atlantic institution of forced labor.
Thomas Clarkson was an early founder of a group named for this action, and one early writer who advocated this action was Anthony Benezet.
{abolishing slavery} [accept obvious equivalents; accept {abolishing the slave trade}; accept the {emancipation of slaves}]