David Bruce is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Thomas Fowell Buxton was not only the leader of the nineteenth-century British campaign to abolish slavery, but he was also the advocate of a wide range of other humanitarian causes. David Bruce has conducted extensive research in the primary sources to write a new appraisal of a man who saw the defense of human rights as a Christian duty.

• “A Noble, Simple, True Man:” A Historiographical Introduction to Sir Thomas Fowell BuxtonChapter One: “Principles Early Planted” Chapter Two: SpitalfieldsChapter Three: “An Inner Light”Chapter Four: Buxton and Penal ReformChapter Five: Buxton in Parliament, 1819–1822Chapter Six: Taking Command, 1822-1829Chapter Seven: Abolition and Its Aftermath, 1830-1838Chapter Eight: “A Holy Cause:” The Niger Expedition of 1841Chapter Nine: Buxton in WinterConclusionAppendix: Chronology on the Life of Sir Thomas Fowell BuxtonBibliography

David Bruce is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Thomas Fowell Buxton was not only the leader of the nineteenth-century British campaign to abolish slavery, but he was also the advocate of a wide range of other humanitarian causes. David Bruce has conducted extensive research in the primary sources to write a new appraisal of a man who saw the defense of human rights as a Christian duty.

• “A Noble, Simple, True Man:” A Historiographical Introduction to Sir Thomas Fowell BuxtonChapter One: “Principles Early Planted” Chapter Two: SpitalfieldsChapter Three: “An Inner Light”Chapter Four: Buxton and Penal ReformChapter Five: Buxton in Parliament, 1819–1822Chapter Six: Taking Command, 1822-1829Chapter Seven: Abolition and Its Aftermath, 1830-1838Chapter Eight: “A Holy Cause:” The Niger Expedition of 1841Chapter Nine: Buxton in WinterConclusionAppendix: Chronology on the Life of Sir Thomas Fowell BuxtonBibliography

David Bruce is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Thomas Fowell Buxton was not only the leader of the nineteenth-century British campaign to abolish slavery, but he was also the advocate of a wide range of other humanitarian causes. David Bruce has conducted extensive research in the primary sources to write a new appraisal of a man who saw the defense of human rights as a Christian duty.

• “A Noble, Simple, True Man:” A Historiographical Introduction to Sir Thomas Fowell BuxtonChapter One: “Principles Early Planted” Chapter Two: SpitalfieldsChapter Three: “An Inner Light”Chapter Four: Buxton and Penal ReformChapter Five: Buxton in Parliament, 1819–1822Chapter Six: Taking Command, 1822-1829Chapter Seven: Abolition and Its Aftermath, 1830-1838Chapter Eight: “A Holy Cause:” The Niger Expedition of 1841Chapter Nine: Buxton in WinterConclusionAppendix: Chronology on the Life of Sir Thomas Fowell BuxtonBibliography