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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.
Everything about John Clarkson →- Occupation
- 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