Death and Legacy
Clarkson died on 2 April 1828 in Woodbridge, Suffolk. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's church. The unassuming Clarkson’s last words in reaction to a report of the unrelenting abuse of slaves in the West Indies were reported to be, "It is dreadful to think, after my brother and his friends have been working for forty years that such things should still be."
Clarkson was portrayed by Stephen Campbell Moore in the BBC television Rough Crossings (2007).
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