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	History of the Grammar School
		It was founded by the Abolitionists, people like William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton who was the first treasurer of the new society, and Chairman of the Sierra Leone Company which ruled Sierra Leone at its inception.
		Thus Moses Bentick, Obadiah Moore, later to become principal, William Gates, John Bernard Bowen, M.J. Marke were all sent to England for higher education.
		The name of the society was later changed to the CMS.
	members.aol.com /matinc/slgshistory.htm

	Glimpses bulletin #5: Wilberforce warred against slavery
		Wilberforce was part of an amazingly effective small group of wealthy British Christians that became known as "The Clapham sect." Among their activities was the founding of the Sierra Leone colony in Africa for slaves who had been freed.
		Wilberforce was known to be involved with over 60 organizations in his driving concern to spread the Christian message and lift the moral climate.
		As a young politician Wilberforce dedicated his life to the seemingly impossible task of the abolition of slavery in 18th-century Britain.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps005.shtml (1061 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #5: Wilberforce warred against slavery
		Wilberforce was part of an amazingly effective small group of wealthy British Christians that became known as "The Clapham sect." Among their activities was the founding of the Sierra Leone colony in Africa for slaves who had been freed.
		Wilberforce was known to be involved with over 60 organizations in his driving concern to spread the Christian message and lift the moral climate.
		As a young politician Wilberforce dedicated his life to the seemingly impossible task of the abolition of slavery in 18th-century Britain.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps005.shtml (1031 words)

	Part 1: The Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay...
		Another highlight is Zachary Macaulay's Diary for 1793-94 and his Journals for 1793-1799 for the period when he was in Sierra Leone.
		His accomplishments in the colony were many, but difficulties finally forced him to resign his post in 1799, and from 1799 to 1808 he was Secretary of the Sierra Leone Company in England.
		Macaulay was a close friend of Hannah More (58 letters are featured here), Henry Brougham (32 letters), Thomas Clarkson (27 letters), and William Wilberforce (47 letters).
	www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /GUIDES/G004.HTM (1031 words)

	Black Studies Microforms in University of Missouri Special Collections
		Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838) was especially active in the Sierra Leone colony founded by Wilberforce.
		PART 1: PAPERS OF THOMAS CLARKSON, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, ZACHARY MACAULAY, MARRIET MARTINEAU, HARRIET BEECHER STOWE and WILLIAM WILBERFORCE FROM THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY.
		Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States, distinguished himself in the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mexican Wars.
	www.system.missouri.edu /spec/blackstudiesmf.htm (1031 words)

	Zachary Macaulay
		His career was a varied one, having managed an estate in Jamaica ; he became Governor of Sierra Leone, 1793 - 1799.
		Zachary Macaulay ( 1768 - 1838) was an influential 18th century philanthropist, a man of evangelical piety and a supporter of William Wilberforce.
		A member of the Clapham Sect, he helped form the Anti-Slavery Society in 1823.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/z/za/zachary_macaulay.html (1031 words)

	Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
		Freetown's economy revolves largely around its harbor, which handles Sierra Leone's main exports.
		The inhabitants revolted in 1800, but the British retook control, beginning expansionism which led to the creation of Sierra Leone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown (1031 words)

	Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freetown, population 1,070,200 ( 2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
		Also in Freetown are assorted beaches and markets, and the Sierra Leone Museum featuring the Ruiter Stone, nomoli and masks.
		Freetown's suburbs stretch along the coast, forming a working class East End of Wellington, Kissy, Cline Town, Fourah Bay, Kossa Town and Foulah Town and a bourgeois West End of Congo Town, Murray Town, Wilberforce and Aberdeen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown%2C_Sierra_Leone (1031 words)

	Henderson Prize for the Advancement of Liberty
		Another founding member was Zachary Macaulay, a one-time plantation manager and former governor of Sierra Leone who would found and edit the Anti-Slavery Reporter in 1825.
		Wilberforce and Clarkson were among its members, as were two MPs, Thomas Fowell Buxton and Henry Brougham.
		The ailing Wilberforce sat on the sidelines, having retired from politics in 1825.
	hpal.blogspot.com (8841 words)

	Henderson Prize for the Advancement of Liberty
		Another founding member was Zachary Macaulay, a one-time plantation manager and former governor of Sierra Leone who would found and edit the Anti-Slavery Reporter in 1825.
		Wilberforce and Clarkson were among its members, as were two MPs, Thomas Fowell Buxton and Henry Brougham.
		The ailing Wilberforce sat on the sidelines, having retired from politics in 1825.
	hpal.blogspot.com (8841 words)

	Freetown - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Freetown
		The city is the site of the University of Sierra Leone and is twinned with Kingston upon Hull in England.
		Freetown's suburbs stretch along the coast, forming a working class East End of Wellington, Kissy, Cline Town, Fourah Bay, Kossa Town and Foulah Town and a bourgeois West End of Congo Town, Murray Town, Wilberforce and Aberdeen.
		It was captured by ECOWAS troops seeking to restore President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in 1998, and later it was unsuccessfully attacked by rebels of the Revolutionary United Front.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Freetown.html (423 words)

	Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
		Freetown's suburbs stretch along the coast, forming a working class East End of Wellington, Kissy, Cline Town, Fourah Bay, Kossa Town and Foulah Town and a bourgeois West End of Congo Town, Murray Town, Wilberforce and Aberdeen.
		In 1792, Freetown was founded by former slaves from Nova Scotia, and survived being pillaged by the French in 1794.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown (439 words)

	Kingston upon Hull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hull is twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, Niigata in Japan, Raleigh, North Carolina in the USA, Reykjavik in Iceland, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Szczecin in Poland.
		Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, the Ferens Art Gallery, the Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, the Spurn Lightship, the Arctic Corsair and the Deep.
		Hull, Massachusetts in the USA is named for this city, as is Hull, Quebec, which is part of the Canadian national capital region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull (1648 words)

	Kingston upon Hull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hull is twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, Niigata in Japan, Raleigh, North Carolina in the USA, Reykjavik in Iceland, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Szczecin in Poland.
		Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, the Ferens Art Gallery, the Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, the Spurn Lightship, the Arctic Corsair and the Deep.
		Hull, Massachusetts in the USA is named for this city, as is Hull, Quebec, which is part of the Canadian national capital region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hull,_England (1672 words)

	Great Britain or United Kingdom
		In 1787, the same year that poor blacks sailed for Sierra Leone, members of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor joined with a pietistic religious group called the Clapham Sect to form the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, or the Abolition Committee.
		The Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor was founded in 1786 by white abolitionists Jonas Hanway, William Wilberforce, and Granville Sharp, among others.
		William Davidson was part of a revolutionary plot to assassinate English cabinet members and overthrow the English government on charges that it was racially and economically unjust.
	archive.blackvoices.com /research/encarta/tt_352.asp (5808 words)

	OSAC - Warden Message: Independence Day Parade in Sierra Leone
		American citizens are advised to exercise caution around Kissy Road, Wilberforce Road, Siaka Stevens Street, Wellington Street, Lightfoot Boston Street, the Cotton Tree area, and the Bank of Sierra Leone in Central Freetown.
		The U.S. Embassy is located on the corner of Siaka Stevens and Walpole Streets in Freetown; the telephone number for American citizens services is 226-481; the after hours telephone is 227-998.
		Up to 100,000 people are expected for the parade, so there is the potential for unrest along the parade routes and in central Freetown.
	www.ds-osac.org /Reports/report.cfm?contentID=27917 (301 words)

	Henderson Prize for the Advancement of Liberty
		Another founding member was Zachary Macaulay, a one-time plantation manager and former governor of Sierra Leone who would found and edit the Anti-Slavery Reporter in 1825.
		The ailing Wilberforce sat on the sidelines, having retired from politics in 1825.
		He and Henry Brougham petitioned William IV in May of 1832 to create a number of Whig peerages to enable reform; the king refused.
	hpal.blogspot.com (8841 words)

	Macaulay, Thomas -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		His father, Zachary Macaulay, the son of a Presbyterian minister from the Hebrides, had been governor of Sierra Leone; an ardent philanthropist and an ally of William Wilberforce, who fought for the abolition of slavery, he was a man of severe evangelical piety.
		Macaulay was born in the house of an uncle in Leicestershire.
		Macaulay was a historian, essayist, orator, and politician whose views formed the social and political outlook of a generation of Englishmen.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275574?tocId=9275574 (8841 words)

	THOMPSON, T. P. - LoveToKnow Article on THOMPSON, T. P.
		Through his acquaintance with William Wilberforce, he was appointed governor of Sierra Leone in 1808, but was recalled on account of his hostility to the slave trade.
		Thompson proved a worthy successor to Whewell; the twenty years of his mastership were years of progress, and he himself took an active part in the abolition of tests and the reform of university studies and of the college statutes.
		THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894), Canadian jurist and statesman, was bom at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the loth of November 1844, of Irish descent.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TH/THOMPSON_T_P_.htm (2272 words)

	The Clapham Sect, By O. Hardman, D.D.
		The most notable of them were William Wilberforce, the orator, and Henry Thornton, the financier, next-door neighbours; Zachary Macaulay, sometime Governor of Sierra Leone, and Lord Teignmouth, formerly Governor-General of India; James Stephen, a famous advocate; Charles Grant, Chairman of the East India Company; and Granville Sharp.
		Venn's parishioners included a number of well-to-do and influential people living in substantial houses on the borders of the Common; and from these the Clapham Sect was formed.
		John Venn was born in 1759, the year in which his father removed from Clapham to Huddersfield.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/misc/clapham.html (809 words)

	Politics - The Uncommon Christians of Clapham - HBCM
		The Clapham group established and financed the colony of Sierra Leone in Africa as a home for freed slaves.
		Thomas Clarkson, together with the Clapham group led by William Wilberforce, campaigned across the country and in parliament against slavery.
		These Christians from Clapham Common influenced the conscience of the nation by their insistence on the standards taught in the Bible.
	www.hbcm.org.uk /ad/politics.htm (267 words)

	Kingston upon Hull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hull is twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, Reykjavik in Iceland and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
		Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, the Ferens Art Gallery, the Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, the Spurn Lightship, the Arctic Corsair and the Deep.
		It had been a county borough within the East Riding for many decades, but from 1974 to 1996 it was part of Humberside, and upon the abolition of that county, it was made a unitary authority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull (267 words)

	Who's Who (Historically Significant Part 2) in Leicester and Leicestershire
		His father, Zachary Macaulay, the son of a Presbyterian minister from the Hebrides, had been governor of Sierra Leone; an ardent philanthropist and an ally of William Wilberforce, who fought for the abolition of slavery, he was a man of severe evangelical piety.
		Historically significant: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron (English historian, essayist, and statesman) was born in the house of an uncle in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire.
		Thomas Tallis was an organist and composer whose career spanned the reigns of four monarchs and a long period of religious change.
	www.leicesterandleicestershire.com /Whos_Who3.htm (13801 words)

	Early life and political career (from Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		His father, Zachary Macaulay, the son of a Presbyterian minister from the Hebrides, had been governor of Sierra Leone; an ardent philanthropist and an ally of William Wilberforce, who fought for the abolition of slavery, he was a man of severe evangelical piety.
		Macaulay was born in the house of an uncle in Leicestershire.
		Macaulay's mother, a Quaker, was the daughter of…
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-4390?tocId=4390 (88 words)

	Sharp 2
		Sharp joined the crusade against the press-gangs as well as working with Thomas Clarkson for the abolition of slavery: his suggestion for a home for freed slaves in Sierra Leone was adopted.
		Sharp became the father-figure of the famous Clapham sect of philanthropists and evangelicals, which included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and Zachary Macaulay, the father of Lord Macaulay.
		Sharp was the ninth son of Thomas Sharp, the rector of Rothbury and Archdeacon of Northumberland.
	online.unn.ac.uk /faculties/art/humanities/cns/m-sharp2.html (275 words)

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