Travers Buxton
English anti-slavery activist
About Travers Buxton
Lived 1865 – 1945 (aged 79–80).
Travers Buxton (1865–1945) was an English anti-slavery activist.
Early life Travers was a member of the Buxton family which had been involved in abolitionism in the United Kingdom for several generations. Thomas Fowell Buxton had been a founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. His grandson, also called Thomas Fowell Buxton was president of the society in 1901.
Anti-slavery work
Travers became secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (ASS) in 1898. He was the Society's representative to the campaign against Leopold II's Congo Free State. In 1909 when the ASS merged with the Aborigines Protection Society he became secretary of the new organisation.
In 1921, W.E.B. Du Bois invited Travers to organise the 2nd Pan-African Congress.
Publications William Wilberforce, The Story of the Great Crusade, 1900 British East Africa back to slavery: An appeal to the Rt. Hon. Lewis Harcourt, 1914
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Who was Travers Buxton?
English anti-slavery activist
When was Travers Buxton born?
Travers Buxton was born in 1865.
When did Travers Buxton die?
Travers Buxton died in 1945.
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