This is an edited version of an article which was first published by Stabroek News on July 9, 1988 under the rubric of the A.J.McR. Cameron column.
In 1787 a group of twelve men, including Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp formed the Abolition Committee, with the long-term view of securing the abolition of slavery in the British colonies.
The tactics on which they decided were to try and get the Slave Trade abolished first, and thereafter move on to the question of slavery itself.
This committee became the nucleus of the subsequent Abolition Society, which launched the first and most sustained
