Wilberforce

We've all heard of William Wilberforce - but what about the lesser-known abolitionist hero, Thomas Clarkson?Few people knew Georgian England better than Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846).

The power of a speech is very often overlooked. Indeed, rhetorical skill and oratorical eloquence are often seen as instruments of deception rather than sources of inspiration.

Black activists in Britain played a massive - and to this day massively overlooked - role in the abolition of slavery. We begin our Black History Month series by remembering just a few of them.

In the age of empire, the British state always liked to keep in the colonies.