Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Founded
1787
In a London printing shop, twelve men - nine of them Quakers - founded a committee to petition Parliament against the slave trade. Thomas Clarkson would ride thousands of miles collecting evidence; William Wilberforce would fight it in Parliament for twenty years. A long moral argument with a great economic system had begun.
In context
Also in 1787 (4 other events on record)
- U.S. Constitution Signed · North America · Politics
- Constitutional Convention Opens in Philadelphia · North America · Politics
- Federalist Papers Begin Publication · North America · Politics
- Kansei Reforms Begin in Japan · East Asia · Politics
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.