Josiah Forster to Buxton, about his inability to explain how the letter that Buxton had given him permission to read to the delegates at the meeting at Exeter Hall had reached the editor of the Patriot, 17 Nov 1837
He reports on the resolutions passed at that meeting, the memorial being presented to Lord Melbourne, their objection to the reappointment of the Apprenticeship Committee, and the desire for immediate revocation of the apprenticeship system. He records the calling of another meeting in Exeter Hall, the opening of a subscription fund, and the intention to form another society to act for them on this matter. Finally, he outlines a six-point scheme of work for the anti-slavery movement to undertake in the next six months: to complete, present, and publish their memorial, to inquire into the treatment of the non-praedial apprentices, to consider the necessary steps for ensuring the freedom of Black people after apprenticeship, and the treatment of the apprentices' children in the Cape of Good Hope, and to inquire into the state of Mauritius and the fate of Africans released from slavers in Grenada and Sierra Leone.
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- Creation: 17 Nov 1837
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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 444 Vol. 16, p. 163e-h
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