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1800s (Creation)
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- Clarkson, John, 1764-1828
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5.5 cm of textual records
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John Clarkson was a naval officer, abolitionist and banker. He was born in 1764, the son of Rev. John and Anne (Ward) Clarkson and brother of slave trade abolitionist, Thomas Clarkson. In 1786-1787, he was appointed to a committee to investigate mortality in slave ships in Sierra Leone and was chosen a member of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In 1792, Clarkson assembled 1196 freed Blacks at Halifax, N.S., and commanded the flotilla which brought them to the new African colony of Sierra Leone. In 1793, he settled in East Anglia and became a banker. He died in 1828.
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Consists of transcripts of John Clarkson's journal documenting his trip from London to Halifax, his activities in Halifax, and the trip to Sierra Leone from 6 August 1791 to 18 March 1792.
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The original journal was held by Miss Dickinson of Leamington, England. A handwritten copy of the journal was donated by the Nova Scotia Historical Society in the 1950s from their holdings in the Legislative Library. The name of the transcriber and date of transcription are not known.
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No access to original transcript. Use [Clarkson's Mission to America, 1791-1792](), ed. Charles Bruce Fergusson Halifax: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1971.
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No photocopying of microfilm permitted. All requests are to be directed to the British Library, London, England.
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For related records see Sierra Leone Company material in Commissioner of Public Records collection RG 1 volume 419.