Chapter I: Front Matter

others.--Author seeks for further information on the subject;
and visits Members of Parliament

CHAPTER X Fourth class continued.--Author enlarges his
knowledge.--Meeting at Mr. Wilberforce's.--Remarkable junction
of all the four classes, and a Committee formed out of them, in
May, 1787, for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

CHAPTER XI History of the preceding classes, and of their
junction, shown by means of a map.

CHAPTER XII Author endeavours to do away the charge of
ostentation in consequence of becoming so conspicuous in this
work.

CHAPTER XIII Proceedings of the Committee; Emancipation declared
to be no part of its object.--Wrongs of Africa by Mr. Roscoe.

CHAPTER XIV Author visits Bristol to collect
information.--Ill-usage of seamen in the Slave Trade.--Articles
of African produce.--Massacre at Calabar.

CHAPTER XV Mode of procuring and paying seamen in that trade;
their mortality in it.--Construction and admeasurement of
slave-ships.--Difficulty of procuring evidence.--Cases of
Gardiner and Arnold.

CHAPTER XVI Author meets with Alexander Falconbridge; visits
ill-treated and disabled seamen; takes a mate out of one of the
slave-vessels, and puts another in prison for murder.

CHAPTER XVII Visits Liverpool.--Specimens of African
produce.--Dock duties.--Iron instruments used in the
traffic.--His introduction to Mr. Norris.

CHAPTER XVIII Manner of procuring and paying seamen at Liverpool
in the Slave Trade; their treatment and mortality.--Murder of
Peter Green.--Dangerous situation of the Author in consequence
of his inquiries.

CHAPTER XIX Author proceeds to Manchester; delivers a discourse
there on the subject of the Slave Trade.--Revisits Bristol; new
and difficult situation there; suddenly crosses the Severn at
night.--Returns to London.

CHAPTER XX Labours of the Committee during the Author's
journey.--Mr. Sharp elected chairman.--Seal engraved.--Letters
from different correspondents to the Committee.

CHAPTER XXI Further labours of the Committee to February,
1788.--List of new Correspondents.

CHAPTER XXII Progress of the cause to the middle of
May.--Petitions to Parliament.--Author's interviews with Mr.
Pitt and Mr. Grenville.--Privy Council inquire into the subject;
examine Liverpool delegates.--Proceedings of the Committee for
the Abolition.--Motion and Debate in the House of Commons;
discussion of the general question postponed to the next
Session.

CHAPTER XXIII Progress to the middle of July.--Bill to diminish
the horrors of the Middle Passage; Evidence examined against it;
Debates; Bill passed through both Houses.--Proceedings of the
Committee, and effects of them.

CHAPTER XXIV Continuation from June, 1788, to July,
1789.--Author travels in search of fresh evidence.--Privy
Council resume their examinations; prepare their
report.--Proceedings of the Committee for the Abolition; and of
the Planters and others.--Privy Council report laid on the table
of the House of Commons; debate upon it.--Twelve
propositions.--Opponents refuse to argue from the report;
examine new evidence of their own in the House of
Commons.--Renewal of the Middle Passage Bill.--Death and
character of Ramsay.

CHAPTER XXV Continuation from July, 1789, to July, 1790.--Author
travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France; his
proceedings there; returns to England.--Examination of
opponents' evidence resumed in the Commons.--Author travels in
quest of new evidence on the side of the Abolition; this, after
great opposition, introduced.--Renewal of the Middle Passage
Bill.--Section of the slave-ship.--Cowper's _Negro's
Complaint_.--Wedgewood's Cameos.

CHAPTER XXVI Continuation from July, 1790, to July,
1791.--Author travels again.--Examinations on the side of the
Abolition resumed in the Commons; list of those examined.--Cruel
circumstances of the times.--Motion for the Abolition of the
Trade; debates; motion lost.--Resolutions of the
Committee.--Sierra Leone Company established.

CHAPTER XXVII Continuation from July, 1791, to July,
1792.--Author travels again.--People begin to leave off sugar;
petition Parliament.--Motion renewed in the Commons; debates;
abolition resolved upon, but not to commence till 1796.--The
Lords determine upon hearing evidence on the resolution; this
evidence introduced; further hearing of it postponed to the next
Session

CHAPTER XXVIII Continuation from July, 1792, to July,
1793.--Author travels again.--Motion to renew the Resolution of
the last year in the Commons; motion lost.--New motion to
abolish the foreign Slave Trade; motion lost.--Proceeding of the
Lords

CHAPTER XXIX Continuation from July, 1793, to July,
1794.--Author travels again.--Motion to abolish the foreign
Slave Trade renewed, and carried; but lost in the Lords; further
proceedings there.--Author, on account of declining health,
obliged to retire from the cause

CHAPTER XXX Continuation from July, 1794, to July,
1799.--Various motions within this period

CHAPTER XXXI Continuation from July, 1799, to July,
1805.--Various motions within this period

CHAPTER XXXII Continuation from July, 1805, to July,
1806.--Author, restored, joins the Committee again.--Death of
Mr. Pitt.--Foreign Slave Trade abolished.--Resolution to take
measures for the total abolition of the trade.--Address to the
King to negotiate with foreign powers for their concurrence in
it.--Motion to prevent new vessels going into the trade.--All
these carried through both Houses of Parliament