Beschreibung:
The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of Clapham in south London. Its members included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, James Stephen, Zachary Macaulay and others. Stephen Tomkins tells the fascinating story of the group as one of a web of family relations - father and son, aunt and nephew, husband and wife, daughter and father, cousins, etc. Within the story of the people are the stories of their famous campaigns against the slave trade, then slavery, the Sierra Leone colony, Indian mission, home mission, charity and politics. The book ends by assessing the long term influence of the Clapham Sect on Victorian Britain and the Empire.
The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of Clapham in south London. Its members included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, James Stephen, Zachary Macaulay and others. Stephen Tomkins tells the fascinating story of the group as one of a web of family relations - father and son, aunt and nephew, husband and wife, daughter and father, cousins, etc. Within the story of the people are the stories of their famous campaigns against the slave trade, then slavery, the Sierra Leone colony, Indian mission, home mission, charity and politics. The book ends by assessing the long term influence of the Clapham Sect on Victorian Britain and the Empire.
Contents
Dramatis Personae: The Clapham Sect and Significant
Supporters 7
Introduction 11
PART ONE: FATHERS AND MOTHERS 15
1 The Thorntons 16
2 The Venns 28
3 Henry Thornton 36
4 William Wilberforce 43
PART TWO: BROTHERS AND SISTERS 51
5 Schooling 52
6 The Proclamation 57
7 The Slave Trade 66
8 Mendip Schools 75
9 The Slave Trade Continued 80
10 Sierra Leone: Exodus 91
11 Sierra Leone: the Promised Land 101
12 Coming to Clapham 112
13 Sierra Leone: New Management 125
14 The Pen 133
15 Sons and Lovers: Macaulay and Stephen 145
16 Husbands and Wives 155
17 Sierra Leone and Ireland 167
18 Church Missionary Society 174
19 Vice 185
20 Slaves of the Abolitionists 200
21 East and West Indies 212
22 Anti-Slavery 223
23 Deliverance to the Captives 234
24 Sons and Daughters 246
Notes 251
Select Bibliography 262
Index 269
