The African Slave Trade

by Thomas Fowell Buxton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108027687
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/27/2011
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

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.