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John Clarkson

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John Clarkson

English abolitionist

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About John Clarkson

Lieutenant John Clarkson was a Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator and abolitionist. He was the younger brother of Thomas Clarkson, one of the central figures in the British abolitionist movement. As a Sierra Leone Company agent, John Clarkson was instrumental in the founding of Freetown, Sierra Leone as a haven for chiefly formerly enslaved African Americans first relocated to Nova Scotia by British military authorities following the American War of Independence.

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Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Portrait of John Clarkson, painter unknown. via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

military personnel, abolitionist

Position held

Superintendent of Sierra Leone, Governor of Sierra Leone

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain

Born

April 4, 1764

Died

April 2, 1828

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