Clapham Sect

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The Clapham Sect was an influential group of late 18th- and early 19th-century evangelical Anglican social reformers known for campaigning against the slave trade and promoting moral and philanthropic causes in Britain.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian reform movement
evangelical Anglican group
religious social reform group
activeInCentury 18th century
19th century
basedIn Holy Trinity Church, Clapham
country United Kingdom
denomination Church of England
describedAs the Saints
endTime early 19th century
hasMember Charles Grant
Edward Eliot
Granville Sharp
Hannah More
Henry Thornton
Henry Venn
James Stephen
John Venn
Thomas Clarkson
William Wilberforce
Zachary Macaulay
ideology Christian abolitionism
evangelical Anglicanism
influenced British abolitionist movement
Victorian social reform
language English
location Clapham, London
moralFocus Sabbath observance
personal piety
reform of manners
movement Evangelicalism
namedAfter Clapham Common
notableFor campaigning against the slave trade
moral reform campaigns
philanthropic activity
social reform in Britain
opposed Atlantic slave trade
slavery in the British Empire
politicalActivity campaigning for abolition of the slave trade in Parliament
supporting social legislation inspired by Christian ethics
religion Anglicanism
socialFocus education of the poor
mission to seamen and soldiers
poor relief
prison reform
startTime late 18th century
supported British and Foreign Bible Society
Church Missionary Society
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Society for the Suppression of Vice
missionary work overseas
philanthropic education initiatives


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