The African Slave Trade - Part IICosimo, Inc., 2005 M09 1 - 324 páginas One of the most prominent abolitionists of his era, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton campaigned ceaselessly for the end of what he termed "a commerce which [has] produced more crime and misery, than perhaps any other single course of guilt and iniquity." In his deeply influential treatise The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy, published in 1840, he set out to demonstrate the cultural and economic folly of the slave trade-for both the African nations and those who did business with them-and to enlist the support of the general public and the British government for diplomatic efforts aimed at ending slavery.This is Part 2 of Buxton's revolutionary work. Part 1, The African Slave Trade, is also available from Cosimo.British social reformer SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON (1786-1845) was a champion of London's most impoverished citizens, fought for prison reform, and sought to end capital punishment and slavery. He served as a member of the House of Commons from 1818 to 1837, and his life and works are commemorated by a monument in Westminster Abbey. |
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... facts which showed the extent of the Slave Trade , and the waste of human life which accompanied it . But as a negociation had been commenced with Spain for the cession to Great Britain of the sovereignty of Fernando Po , it was not ...
... facts which showed the extent of the Slave Trade , and the waste of human life which accompanied it . But as a negociation had been commenced with Spain for the cession to Great Britain of the sovereignty of Fernando Po , it was not ...
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... not to shrink from the task of sedulously studying the facts collected in this book . In the case of Africa , I fear hardly anything so much as the indulgence of excessive tenderness of feeling PREFACE TO THE REMEDY . V.
... not to shrink from the task of sedulously studying the facts collected in this book . In the case of Africa , I fear hardly anything so much as the indulgence of excessive tenderness of feeling PREFACE TO THE REMEDY . V.
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... fact , however , for they are often defrauded alto- gether , and are always cheated by receiving mer- chandise of the most inferior description . ) But let us suppose that they get the value of one million of money : we have , from this ...
... fact , however , for they are often defrauded alto- gether , and are always cheated by receiving mer- chandise of the most inferior description . ) But let us suppose that they get the value of one million of money : we have , from this ...
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... facts I conceive I am entitled to draw the conclusion , that , as far as the Slave Trade is concerned , little or no benefit has been derived from the force stationed in the neighbourhood of Cuba and Brazil . 2dly . The efficiency of ...
... facts I conceive I am entitled to draw the conclusion , that , as far as the Slave Trade is concerned , little or no benefit has been derived from the force stationed in the neighbourhood of Cuba and Brazil . 2dly . The efficiency of ...
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... however , that in this case , we are to be guided , not by preconceived opinions , but by facts gathered from experience . The truth is , and on this my hopes are built , that the natives , so TREATIES WITH AFRICA . 287.
... however , that in this case , we are to be guided , not by preconceived opinions , but by facts gathered from experience . The truth is , and on this my hopes are built , that the natives , so TREATIES WITH AFRICA . 287.
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Página 458 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Página 346 - ... M'Keal appears to be slightly delirious). We kept ascending the mountains to the south of Toniba till three o'clock, at which time, having gained the summit of the ridge which separates the Niger from the remote branches of the Senegal, I went on a little before ; and coming to the brow of the hill, I once more saw the Niger rolling its immense stream along the plain!
Página 295 - On another occasion, he assured Clapperton that he was able to put an effectual stop to the Slave Trade ; and expressed, with much earnestness of manner, his anxiety to enter into permanent relations of trade and friendship with England. At the close of Clapperton's visit, Bello gave him a letter to the king of England to the same purport as the conversation which had taken place between them.
Página 528 - It is not to be doubted that this country has been invested with wealth and power, with arts and knowledge, with a sway of distant lands, and the mastery of the restless waters, for some great and important purpose in the government of the world.
Página 371 - Persons of a grade higher than those just described are to be found occupying frame houses, and are mostly employed either in carrying on small trades in the market, in buying and retailing the cargoes of native canoes, in curing and drying fish, or in working at various mechanical trades. Respectable men of this grade meet with ready mercantile credits, amounting from £20 to £60; and the class is very numerous.. " Those who have advanced another step are found in frame houses, reared on a stone...
Página 373 - In several of them are to be seen mahogany chairs, tables, sofas, and four-post bedsteads, pier glasses, floor cloths, and other articles indicative of domestic comfort and accumulating wealth. They are almost wholly engaged in mercantile pursuits, and are to be found in neatly fittedup shops on the ground-floor of their respective dwelling-houses. Many of them have realized considerable sums of money.
Página 420 - ... and agriculture; and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted and favoured by nature, should remain in its present savage and neglected state. Much more did I lament, that a people of manners and disposition so gentle and benevolent, should either be left, as they now are, immersed in the gross and uncomfortable blindness of pagan superstition, or permitted to become converts to a system of bigotry...