The African Slave Trade
The African Slave Trade
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USDSir 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.
Product details
January 2011Paperback
9781108027687
262 pages
216 × 140 × 15 mm
0.34kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
