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Book SynopsisDavid Bruce examines the life of one of Great Britain’s most prominent social activists. Using his personal papers, and the papers and books of his friends, associates, and contemporaries, The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton paints a portrait of a unique individual driven to improve his world.
Trade ReviewThomas Fowell Buxton was not only the leader of the nineteenth-century British campaign to abolish slavery, but he was also the advocate of a wide range of other humanitarian causes. David Bruce has conducted extensive research in the primary sources to write a new appraisal of a man who saw the defense of human rights as a Christian duty. -- David William Bebbington, University of Stirling
Table of Contents“A Noble, Simple, True Man:” A Historiographical Introduction to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Chapter One: “Principles Early Planted” Chapter Two: Spitalfields Chapter Three: “An Inner Light” Chapter Four: Buxton and Penal Reform Chapter Five: Buxton in Parliament, 1819–1822 Chapter Six: Taking Command, 1822-1829 Chapter Seven: Abolition and Its Aftermath, 1830-1838 Chapter Eight: “A Holy Cause:” The Niger Expedition of 1841 Chapter Nine: Buxton in Winter Conclusion Appendix: Chronology on the Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Bibliography
