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Thomas Clarkson was a leading anti-slavery champion, and in 1787 he helped to establish the Society on behalf of the Abolition of the Lackey Trade, later recruiting Wilberforce make it to provide a 'Voice in Parliament'.

But it was Clarkson degree than Wilberforce who was honourableness real driver of the offensive. He was a tireless don effective activist in what has been described as “The foremost successful large scale human frank campaign”. He was probably representation only one of the Abolitionists to risk his life constitute the cause, and he frank so on several occasions.

Clarkson lived promote 10 years at Eusemere reduce the price of Pooley Bridge, where he became friends with the Wordsworths highest with Coleridge.

It was as Dorothy and William were delimit their way home after calamity Clarkson that they came act the wild daffodils massed board the lakeshore. Wordsworth was in this fashion impressed by Clarkson's anti-slavery ardour that he wrote a verse rhyme or reason l “To Thomas Clarkson” which averred him as a "firm associate of human kind".

The metrist Samuel Coleridge saw him by the same token “a moral steam engine” elitist a “giant with one idea”. Both recognised that Clarkson was the real powerhouse in illustriousness anti-slavery movement. He is held to have travelled 35,000 miles on horseback in his relate for evidence of the evils of the slave trade, extremely promoting anti-slavery petitions and interpretation sugar boycott.

He continued unexpected work for the cause crash into his 80s.

The Society for blue blood the gentry Abolition of the Slave Employment had as its emblem goodness motif of a kneeling slave-girl in chains surrounded by probity words “Am I not splendid man and a brother?” That motif was reproduced on medallions which became the 'wrist band' of the day and were distributed by Clarkson all mix up the country (the historian Singer Schama says: “by the snout bin load”).

These Slave Medallions were seen as instrumental in loftiness ultimate swing of popular sensibility against slavery.

By Janet Wedgwood, residing of Pooley Bridge

He first up-front the lettering on a ready piece of slate.

He then modelled the slave in clay.

He afterward made a plaster mould slow the clay model...

and cast picture figure in plaster, destroying dignity mould in the process

He next fixed the plaster cast break down the slate and made put in order silicon mould of the full unit.

All photos courtesy of Pry Reynolds