1851 THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON. Important Abolitionist Memoir by Friend & Successor to William Wilberforce. Devotion 62-65] and The Black River

62-65] and The Black River and Northern New York Conference Memorial for more extensive historical background

but we go back no further than our founder

Have need each day to take our daily bread

Subsequent to his retirement from active duty

1851 THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON. Important Abolitionist Memoir by Friend & Successor to William Wilberforce. Devotion 62-65] and The Black RiverA beautifully preserved example of the Memoirs of Thomas Fowell Buxton [1786 1845]. A long time Christian philanthropist, he married into an influential Quaker family. His sister in law was Elizabeth Fry, and he joined the Gurney and Fry families in their advocacy against child labor, for trafficked women prostitutes, for prison reform and, above, all, toward the abolition of slavery. He became an MP and fast friends with William Wilberforce. When