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Zachary Macaulay (Scottish Gaelic: Sgàire MacAmhlaoibh; 2 May 1768 – 13 May 1838) was a Scottish statistician and abolitionist who was a founder of London University and of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and a Governor of British Sierra Leone.
4 de oct. de 2018 · From plantation to Sierra Leone. Macaulay had an unusual start as an abolitionist. He was born in Inveraray, Scotland in May 1768, the son of a minister, part of a large family in a house full of books, taught at home but put to work at age 14 as a clerk in Glasgow to add to the family income.
Learn about Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish-born leader of the campaign to end the slave trade and slavery in Britain. See his bust and inscription in the nave of Westminster Abbey, where he is buried.
4 de oct. de 2018 · Macaulay sought to reveal the true enormities of the slave system and to counter claims that conditions in the West Indies had actually improved. In doing so, he provided [the abolitionists in Parliament] with the evidence on which they could take their stand in the [House of] Commons.” 1
His father, Zachary Macaulay, the son of a Presbyterian minister from the Hebrides, had been governor of Sierra Leone; an ardent philanthropist and an ally of William Wilberforce, who fought for the abolition of slavery, he was a man of severe evangelical piety.
14 de sept. de 2012 · Zachary Macaulay's journey across the empire, from Scotland to the Caribbean and West Africa, was critical to his formation as a particular kind of man, an Evangelical and an abolitionist. His imperial encounters across place and time shaped his understanding of the world.
Macaulay might not have approved of the memorial – he was reportedly a very modest man – but he surely would have appreciated the inclusion of this statistic, given his work compiling facts, figures and evidence to aid the abolitionist cause. From plantation to Sierra Leone Macaulay had an unusual start as an abolitionist.
