“I was approached recently by a Mr. Thomas Clarkson,” Wilberforce admitted. “An unbraceleted Commoner, from Cambridge, about our age. He’s a passionate campaigner against—” “Slavery,” Pitt finished. He looked characteristically thoughtful. “I know of him, actually. He wrote an essay against the practice when he was at university, and found his own argument so convincing he devoted his life to abolition.”
