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The Burden of Radical Fame The Burden of Radical Fame
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Moral Rehabilitation: A Portraiture of Quakerism Moral Rehabilitation: A Portraiture of Quakerism
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The Romantic Hero as Historian: the History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade The Romantic Hero as Historian: the History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade
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Quaker Coda: The Memoirs of William Penn Quaker Coda: The Memoirs of William Penn
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Conclusion: The Nature of Transformative History Conclusion: The Nature of Transformative History
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Notes Notes
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13 Thomas Clarkson’s Quaker Trilogy: Abolitionist Narrative as Transformative History
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Published:April 2014
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This chapter presents a reading of Thomas Clarkson's “Quaker Trilogy”— comprising A Portraiture of Quakerism, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, and The Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn—appearing between 1806 and 1813. These texts embodied the author's efforts in the wake of the French Revolution to reestablish abolition of the slave trade as a respectable and still international cause. In the Portraiture and the Memoirs, Quakers were unsurprisingly center stage. But in the History, they are central as well, though with little attention given to Quaker abolitionists' on-going struggle to raise the Friends' own consciousness about the dangers of slaveholding, or Quaker activists' sometimes “strategic deceptions” for achieving abolition. In the process, Clarkson not only slanted the Friends as the unambivalent agents of antislavery and himself as the premier chronicler of this great moment in British and American social activism, but he also designed a new kind of history: one that sought to combine the empirical drive of social science with the passion of social reform.
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