Memorial to an Abolitionist, Parliament Square, London

Photograph taken 1870 - 1900 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: CC97/00607

Buxton Memorial Drinking fountain, Parliament Square, London. Thomas Fowell Buxton continued the campaign in Parliament started by Wilberforce. He was a Quaker and leading social reformer.

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Greater London Westminster

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Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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Gravestone of Scipio Africanus, 1720, St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. The gravestone bears an interesting inscription giving an insight into how black people were thought of at this time in history.

Memorial to an Abolitionist, Parliament Square, London

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