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By Iain Whyte

In 1833 Thomas Fowell Buxton, the parliamentary successor to William Wilberforce, proposed a toast to 'the anti-slavery instruct people all. - Mr. Macaulay.' but Zachary Macaulay's massive contribution to the finishing of slavery within the British Empire has acquired scant attractiveness via historians. This publication seeks to fill that hole, focussing on his involvement with slavery and anti-slavery but additionally analyzing the folks and occasions that encouraged him in his life's paintings. It strains his Scottish roots and his torrid account of years as a tender overseer on a Jamaican plantation. His unintended stumbling into the anti-slavery circle via a kin marriage resulted in youth within the govt of the loose colony of Sierra Leone facing settlers, slave investors, neighborhood chiefs and a French invasion. His go back to Britain in 1799 begun approximately 40 years of study, writing, and reporting within the lengthy crusade to put off what he defined as 'this foul stain at the nation.' James Stephen rated him as

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