---
title: 'The African Slave Trade'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Cameron Lowrie'
date: 1840-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Slavery'
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
scriptures:
- 'Exodus 21'
- 'Philemon 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/lowrie-1840-the-african-slave-trade
---

# The African Slave Trade

Review of sectarianism followed by a lengthy summary of Thomas Fowell Buxton's exposé on the African slave trade, detailing its scale, horrors (middle passage) and proposed remedies.

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