Books by Thomas Fowell Buxton

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. The Remedy, first published in 1840, called on the government to assist African development, so that African chiefs did not need to participate in the trade.

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton took up the leadership of the abolition movement following William Wilberforce's retirement. His research, published in 1839, into the continuance of the African slave trade after it was outlawed in British territories in 1833 demonstrates the need for further action to achieve complete abolition.