Approaching Thomas Clarkson’s Map of Human Rivers in The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1808)
In the first volume of his accounts of the anti-slave trade campaign, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1808), Thomas Clarkson had a map drawn, representing the four groups of abolitionists as different rivers flowing down the page towards what...
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Polysèmes
2025
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| Izvleček: | In the first volume of his accounts of the anti-slave trade campaign, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1808), Thomas Clarkson had a map drawn, representing the four groups of abolitionists as different rivers flowing down the page towards what might be understood as an estuary. This map was intended as a visual aid to “comprehend the whole of it [the abolitionist movement] at a single view.” Far from being complete, it is nevertheless remarkable as a vivid timeline, mixing spatial and temporal information. The aim of this article is to place this representation in the context of the period, in which timelines were particularly fashionable, and a new understanding of geology called for more maps and exploration of river courses. |
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