1823 THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON. Pro-Slavery - Anti-Abolition Document Owned by the Most Notorious Slave Owner in England.

An exceptionally scarce rejoinder against Thomas Fowell Buxton's critical speech on the abolition of slavery in the House of Commons, given at the direct request of his dear friend, William Wilberforce.  In the months leading up to this, there had been efforts by the West Indian Merchants to avoid abolition at all if possible, or to at the very least make it of such pace and scale that it could be managed without destroying the West Indian and British economies [as they threatened it would]. In the end, as the post-1833 activities of the West Indian Merchants showed, it was all an effort to buy time to devise another system to put into place which would simply be slavery by another name. In the speech, Buxton gives a brief history of the abolitionist cause, of England as not only a user of slaves, but of her history as a distributor of human flesh. That's just him easing into it though. He then begins to give detailed accounts of young boys, young girls, beaten and killed, ravaged by t