1837 Aug 12. Dr John Philip to Buxton, about hearing of his defeat, inquiring whether he was being offered another constituency and being told at …
1837; Gale Group;
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pp 103 n-q 1837 Aug 12. Dr John Philip to Buxton, about hearing of his defeat, inquiring whether he was being offered another constituency and being told at the Anti-Slavery Society's office that he had declined to return to Parliament for another constituency at that time. He records the debt that he, the Hottentots and aborigines of Africa owed Buxton, his delight at haring that day that Buxton intended returning to Parliament before 1840 and stresses the importance of a break from Parliament for Buxton's health. He writes of the probable reappointment of the Apprenticeship Committee on the reconvening of Parliament, when Joseph Sturge's statements would be invalidated by the evidence produced, the strong position of the Government in opposing any attempt to obtain curtailment of the term of apprenticeship, the anti-slavery movement's ability to prevent the continuance of slavery in other forms by opposing the vagrancy acts and procuring the freedom of the children at the same time as that of their parents.
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