After lambasting Stephen Tomkins, this man nominated Thomas Perronet Thompson to serve as governor of a new state.
After lambasting Stephen Tomkins, this man nominated Thomas Perronet Thompson to serve as governor of a new state. This man disagreed with Thomas Buxton about how to bring about the initiative for which he is most well known. Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp were two of this man's foremost allies and this leader spoke out against the Game Laws, which imposed capital punishment. This man founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and one major influence in this figure's life was the author of "Amazing Grace", John Newton. Along with his cousin, Henry Thornton, this man was part of a group that created the (*) Sierra Leone Company and were known as the Saints, the Clapham sect. After several failed attempts, this man saw his ardor rewarded with the passage of the Slave Trade Act. Dying a month before the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, for ten points, name this Christian British reformer hell-bent on freeing slaves.
After lambasting Stephen Tomkins, this man nominated Thomas Perronet Thompson to serve as governor of a new state.
William Wilberforce