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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.
Zachary Macaulay (Inveraray, 1768 – Londra, 1838) è stato un politico inglese. Abolizionista, fece parte della compagnia Sierra Leone e dal 1792 governò una colonia di schiavi liberati in Africa.
4 ott 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.
16 giu 2023 · Learn about the life and work of Zachary Macaulay, a key figure in the abolition movement in Britain and the editor of the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. Explore his personal experience in Jamaica and Sierra Leone, his research and writing on slavery, and his role in the campaign for reform.
25 mar 2024 · 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 ott 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
14 set 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.
