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Discours prononcé dans la Chambre des Communes d'Angleterre, à l'appui de la motion pour l'adoucissement, et l'extinction graduelle de l'Esclavage dans les Colonies anglaises [...] précédé d'une introduction sur l'état des esclaves dans ces colonies, par Charles Coquerel

Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Bibliothèque de la Société de l'histoire du Protestantisme français, Paris. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, University of London.

Buxton Speech Commons Gradual Abolition British Colonies French Comité Société Morale Chrétienne

This French pamphlet reproduces Thomas Fowell Buxton's speech to the House of Commons on the gradual abolition of slavery in May 1823. Published in France by the committee for the abolition of the slave trade (part of the Society of Christian Morality), Buxton's speech is introduced by a member of the Society, Charles Coquerel, who provides some background information and statistics on the legal framework of slavery in the British West Indies, and cites a number of British and French sources on slavery.

The speech by Thomas Fowell that forms the subject of this pamphlet is also reproduced in English as: Substance of the debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th May, 1823, on a motion for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions (London: J. Hatchard & Son and J. & A. Arch, 1823), 1-21.