Thomas Day

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abolitionist children's writer human political thinker writer

Thomas Day was an 18th-century British author and radical thinker best known for his didactic children's book "The History of Sandford and Merton" and his involvement in Enlightenment and reformist circles.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	abolitionist → children's writer → human → political thinker → writer →
associatedWith	Birmingham → Wargrave, Berkshire →
birthDate	1748-06-22 →
birthPlace	London →
causeOfDeath	riding accident →
closeFriend	Richard Lovell Edgeworth →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain →
deathDate	1789-09-28 →
deathPlace	Barehill, near Dorking, Surrey →
describedAs	didactic moralist → radical thinker →
educatedAt	Charterhouse School → Corpus Christi College, Oxford NERFINISHED →
genre	children's literature → didactic literature → political writing →
influenced	children's moral education in Britain → late 18th-century reformist discourse →
influencedBy	Jean-Jacques Rousseau →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
marriedTo	Esther Milnes →
memberOf	Lunar Society of Birmingham →
movement	British abolitionist movement → Enlightenment → radicalism →
name	Thomas Day →
notableWork	The Dying Negro → The History of Little Jack → The History of Sandford and Merton →
occupation	author → philosopher → political activist →
period	18th century →
philosophicalView	Rousseauian educational theory →
placeOfBurial	St Mary's Church, Wargrave →
religion	Unitarianism →
supportedCause	abolition of the slave trade → political reform →
wrote	An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves → Poetical Trifles → The Dying Negro → The History of Little Jack → The History of Sandford and Merton →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lunar Society of Birmingham →	hasMember
Thomas Day →	name