Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet : With Selections from his Correspondence (Paperback)

Preface; 1. 1786?1802, notices of the Buxton family; 2. 1802?1807, education in Ireland; 3. 1807?1812, enters Truman's Brewery; 4. 1812?1816, first speech in public; 5. 1816, 1817, adventure with a mad dog; 6. 1818, 1819, election, 1818; 7. 1820, 1821, election; 8. 1821?1823, chosen by Mr. Wilberforce as his successor in the slavery cause; 9. 1823?1826, excitement in the West Indies; 10. 1822?1826, Cromer Hall; 11. 1826, 1827, the Mauritius slave trade; 12. 1827, 1828, meditations; 13. 1828, 1829, the Hottentots; 14. 1829, catholic emancipation; 15. 1829, 1830, letters; 16. 1830, the public begins to arouse itself with regard to slavery; 17. 1831, religious meditations; 18. 1832, insurrection in Jamaica; 19. 1833, government undertakes the slavery question; 20. 1833, debate, May 14; 21. 1833, 1834, letters; 22. 1834, 1835, inquiry into the treatment of aboriginal tribes in British colonies; 23. 1835, 1836, accounts from West Indies; 24. 1836, Scotland; 25. 1837, 1838, Aborigines' report; 26. 1838, new plan for the suppression of the slave trade; 27. 1828, 1839, communications with government, and with private individuals; 28. 1839, 1840, journey through France and Italy; 29. 1840, prisons at Civita Vecchia; 30. June, 1840, to April, 1841, great public meeting in Exeter Hall; 31. 1841, correspondence; 32. 1843, 1844, declining health; 33. 1843?1845, continued and increasing illness; Appendix.