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British activist
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Male
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Birth:
1755
Death:
1789
The details
Biography
Introduction
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.
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.
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.