Career
He was active in the London Aborigines" Protection Society and Emancipation Committee, and met Harriet Ann Jacobs when she was in England in 1858. And was a vocal supporter of the Union side during the American Civil War. In 1859, Chesson and Thompson founded the London Emancipation Society which strongly supported the Unionist side in the American Civil War.
He wrote on Richard Cobden, for his major biography.
