Richard Robert Madden was employed by British government to ensure Caribbean slave trade came to an end
Richard Robert Madden was 'a great humanitarian' who sought to draw a parallel between the slave trade and the subjugation of Catholics in Ireland
There were other Irish people who opposed slavery, most notably Daniel O’Connell and Howe Peter Browne, the Marquess of Sligo. Madden is less well known than those two but his influence in highlighting the evils of the slave trade were of profound importance. He also participated in the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London , as the Cuba expert. Also in 1840, his testimony on behalf of illegally enslaved African people played a crucial role in winning the Amistad case, which ruled that the African people who had revolted on the Spanish ship La Amistad should be freed.
The bound volumes of his writings and correspondence, which include letters written to Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, were assembled by Madden’s son Thomas More Madden. The driving force of his father’s life was “an intense love of justice and a hatred of oppression in whatever clime or on whatever race it might be exercised”, he claimed.
The acquisition is timely, she adds, because of the Black Lives Matter movement which has focused on the legacy of slavery.
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