1833 April 30. Buxton to W. Lloyd Caldecot, chiding him for losing his temper when attacking him for the part he had taken in the Slave Question. …
1833; Gale Group;
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pp 47-50 1833 April 30. Buxton to W. Lloyd Caldecot, chiding him for losing his temper when attacking him for the part he had taken in the Slave Question. He quotes Jeremie's account of a slave collar and the way in which it had come into his possession, the manner in which it was used and the testimony of the Protector of Slaves and two military investigators who, in 1827, went to the estate [in Mauritius] where it had been used that there were others of the same kind in use there. Buxton had been given the collar by Jeremie and it had been exhibited in Bath by Knibb. He refutes the charge that Mr Whitely had been sent out by him or the Anti-Slavery Society - they had not known of his existence until after the publication of his pamphlet. He demands that he should give his grounds for asserting that the slave collar had been fabricated in Britain, that Whitely had been sent out as a wolf in sheep's clothing by the Anti-Slavery Society and that the Society did not care about the purity of the means it employed to obtain its ends. He agrees that there was a plot to destroy West Indian property, if by that he meant the holding of slaves and admits that he was a party to it, abetted by the greater part of the nation, and that he and the others conspirators would not relax their efforts until every subject of the British Empire should cease to be a chattel. (Copy.)
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