This Accursed Thing: Interactive video drama

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Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846

Thomas Clarkson campaigned through most of his life against the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.

In 1787 he co- founded the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The scenes show excerpts of Clarkson's speeches made in Manchester, and filmed in the Cathedral.