The African Slave Trade

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton records the problems in enforcing anti-slavery laws in 1839 and suggests viable practical solutions.

Thomas Fowell Buxton (Author)

9781108027687, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 January 2011

262 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a committed social reformer throughout his life and became involved with the abolition of slavery during his time as an MP, taking over the leadership of the abolition movement in the British House of Commons after William Wilberforce retired in 1825. Following the abolition of slavery in Britain and its colonies in 1833, and his loss of his Parliamentary seat in 1837, Buxton concerned himself with the slave trade along the African coast still perpetrated by Africans, Arabs and the Portuguese. The results of his research and conclusions were originally published in 1839, and demonstrate the extent to which slave trading still existed, and its human cost in mortality and misery, despite attempts at policing by the British navy. Buxton explores the theory that the key to complete abolition is a change in market economics to eliminate the need for African slave labour.

Introduction
Extent: Brazil
Cuba
Porto Rico
Buenos Ayres, &c.
The United States
Texas
Summary
Corroborative proofs of the extent of the slave trade
Mohammedan slave trade
Summary
Mortality: Seizure
March
Detention
Middle Passage
Loss after capture
Loss after landing, and in seasoning
Summary
Failure of efforts already made for the suppression of the slave trade
Commercial intercourse with Africa: African productions
African soil, &c.
African commerce
Conclusion.

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