The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume II

_Continuation from July 1790 to July 1791--Author travels again throughout the kingdom--Object of his journey--Motion in the House of Commons to resume the hearing of evidence i...

_Continuation from June 1788 to July 1789--Author travels to collect further evidence--great difficulties in obtaining it--forms committees on his tour--Privy council resume the...

_Continuation from July 1791 to July 1792--Author travels round the kingdom again--Object of his journey--People begin to leave off the use of sugar--to form committees--and to...

_Continuation from July 1789 to July 1790--Author travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France--attends the committees of the Friends of the Negros--Counter attempts of t...

_Continuation from July 1805 to July 1806--Author returns to his duty in the committee--travels again round the Kingdom--Death of Mr. Pitt--his character, an it related to the q...

_Continuation from July 18O6 to March 18O7--Death of Mr. Fox--Bill for the total abolition of the Slave-trade carried in the House of Lords--sent from thence to the Commons--ame...

I purpose, though it may seem abrupt after the division which has hitherto been made of the contents of this volume, to throw the events of the next five years into one chapter.

The question had now been brought forward in almost every possible way, and yet had been eventually lost. The total and immediate abolition had been attempted; and then the grad...

_Continuation from July 1793 to July 1794--Author travels round the kingdom again--Motion to abolish the foreign Slave-trade renewed in the Commons--and carried--but lost in the...

_Continuation from July 1792 to July 1793--Author travels round the kingdom again--Motion to renew the resolution of the last year in the Commons--Motion lost--New Motion in the...