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Clarkson/Folder 1-5/Doc 68
Unique identifier
GB 275 Clarkson/Folder 1-5/Doc 68
Title
Draft of the Resolution of the Court of Common Council of the City of London giving Clarkson the freedom of the city (1) and requesting him to sit for the carving of a marble bust for the court rooms
Date(s)
- 1839 (Undated, so date is estimated) (Creation)
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1p paper
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Scope and content
The freedom has been bestowed in testimony of the public service given by Clarkson in freeing enslaved Africans, separating commercial greatness from principles incompatible with the religion of mercy and achieving a moral victory in spreading civilisation.
(1) Clarkson was given the Freedom of the City in 1839.