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Tag: <span>Thomas Clarkson</span>

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Abolitionism, Christianity, Defence of slavery, Free people of colour, Revolution, Spanish Town, St Domingue/Hispaniola

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 5 December 1792

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Following a petition by free people of colour seeking civil rights to the Jamaican assembly, Taylor confided to Arcedeckne that he feared that events could go the same way in Jamaica as they had in French Saint-Domingue, where clashes between free people of colour and whites had preceded a large-scale …

Abolitionism, Amelioration, Defence of slavery, Kingston, Slave trade abolition

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 15 December 1788

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By the end of 1788, the assembly had produced a report, to be publicised in Britain, in response to the calls for an end to the slave trade and criticisms of slavery in the West Indies. Taylor hoped that this would be sufficient to put an end to the abolitionist …