Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
With Selections from his Correspondence

The first biography of noted social reformer and abolitionist Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, published in 1848 by his son.

Thomas Fowell Buxton (Author), Charles Buxton (Edited by)

9781108020251, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 September 2010

620 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.78 kg

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from 1825 he became the leader of the abolitionist movement in Parliament following William Wilberforce's retirement from politics. This biography, compiled by his son Charles Buxton and first published in 1848, provides an intimate and detailed account of Buxton's character and involvement with social reform and the abolition movement, culminating in the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. The inclusion of Buxton's letters to family, friends and colleagues provides valuable insights into his character and his thoughts on the progress of the abolition movement and other political events connected to the campaign for abolition.

Preface
1. 1786–1802, notices of the Buxton family
2. 1802–1807, education in Ireland
3. 1807–1812, enters Truman's Brewery
4. 1812–1816, first speech in public
5. 1816, 1817, adventure with a mad dog
6. 1818, 1819, election, 1818
7. 1820, 1821, election
8. 1821–1823, chosen by Mr. Wilberforce as his successor in the slavery cause
9. 1823–1826, excitement in the West Indies
10. 1822–1826, Cromer Hall
11. 1826, 1827, the Mauritius slave trade
12. 1827, 1828, meditations
13. 1828, 1829, the Hottentots
14. 1829, catholic emancipation
15. 1829, 1830, letters
16. 1830, the public begins to arouse itself with regard to slavery
17. 1831, religious meditations
18. 1832, insurrection in Jamaica
19. 1833, government undertakes the slavery question
20. 1833, debate, May 14
21. 1833, 1834, letters
22. 1834, 1835, inquiry into the treatment of aboriginal tribes in British colonies
23. 1835, 1836, accounts from West Indies
24. 1836, Scotland
25. 1837, 1838, Aborigines' report
26. 1838, new plan for the suppression of the slave trade
27. 1828, 1839, communications with government, and with private individuals
28. 1839, 1840, journey through France and Italy
29. 1840, prisons at Civita Vecchia
30. June, 1840, to April, 1841, great public meeting in Exeter Hall
31. 1841, correspondence
32. 1843, 1844, declining health
33. 1843–1845, continued and increasing illness
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]