John Barton (Quaker)

John Barton (1755–1789) was one of nine English Quaker members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which was set up in 1787 by William Wilberforce and two other Anglicans.[1]

Abolishing slave trading

The Committee's efforts ultimately led to the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, 1807 by the UK Parliament on 25 March in that year.[2]

Family

Barton was married to Mary Done (1752–1784), with whom he had a son, the poet Bernard Barton, and a daughter, the education writer Maria Hack, both of whom were born in Carlisle. After their mother's death, Barton moved south and married Elizabeth Horne (1760–1833) of Tottenham, Middlesex, by whom he had a son, John Barton, an economist who specialized in the study of poverty.[3]

References
  1. "Library Guide 9: Library sources on Quakers and the origins of the abolition movement" Britain Yearly Meeting web site Accessed 26 March 2007 Archived 11 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600-1807" British Parliament web site Accessed 26 March 2007
  3. G. Sotiroff, "John Barton (1789–1852)", The Economic Journal, Vol. 62, No. 245, March 1952.


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