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

_Forerunners continued to 1787--divided from this time into four classes--First class consists principally of persons in Great Britain of various description--Godwyn--Baxter--Tr...

_Third class of forerunners and coadjutors, up to 1787, consists of the Quakers and others in America--Yearly meeting for Pennsylvania and the Jerseys takes up the subject in 16...

_Further progress to the middle of May--Petitions begin to be sent to parliament--The king orders the privy council to inquire into the Slave-trade--Author called up to town--hi...

_Continuation to the middle of July--Anxiety of Sir William Dolben to lessen the horrors of the Middle Passage till the great question should be discussed--brings in a bill for...

_No subject more pleasing than that of the removal of evils--Evils have existed almost from the beginning of the world--but there is a power in our nature to counteract them--th...

_Author arrives at Bristol--Introduction to Quaker families there--Objects of his inquiry--Ill usage of seamen on board the ship Brothers--Obtains a knowledge of several article...

_Author proceeds to Manchester--finds a spirit rising among the people there for the abolition of the Slave-trade--is requested to deliver a discourse on the subject of the Slav...

_Author confers with the inhabitants of Bridgewater relative to a petition to parliament in behalf of the abolition--returns to Bristol--discovers a scandalous mode of procuring...

_Hostile disposition towards the author increases, on account of his known patronage of the seamen employed in the Slave-trade--manner of procuring and paying them at Liverpool-...

_Author goes to Monmouth--confers relative to a petition from that place--returns to Bristol--is introduced to Alexander Falconbridge--takes one of the mates of the Africa out o...

_Author secures the Glocester paper, and lays the foundation of a petition from that city--does the same at Worcester--and at Chester--arrives at Liverpool--collects specimens o...

_Second class of forerunners and coadjutors, up to May 1787, consists of the Quakers in England--of George Fox, and others--of the body of the Quakers assembled at the yearly me...

_Author returns to his History--commitee formed as before mentioned--its proceedings--Author produces a summary view of the Slave-trade and of the probable consequences of its a...

_Continuation of the fourth class of forerunners and coadjutors up to 1787--Author goes on to enlarge his knowledge in the different departments of the subject--communicates mor...

_Labours of the commitee during the author's journey--Quakers the first to notice its institution--General Baptists the next--Correspondence opened with American societies for A...

_Fourth class of forerunners and coadjutors up to 1787--Dr. Peckard, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the first of these--gives out the Slave-trade as the subject...

_As it is desirable to know the true sources of events in history, so this will be realized in that of the abolition of the Slave-trade--Inquiry as to those who favoured the cau...

_Continuation of the fourth class of forerunners and coadjutors up to 1787--Bennet Langton--Dr. Baker--Lord and Lady Scarsdale--Author visits Ramsay at Teston--Lady Middleton an...

_Continuation of the fourth class of forerunners and coadjutors up to 1787--Author resolves upon the distribution of his Book--Mr. Sheldon--Sir Herbert Mackworth--Lord Newhaven-...

_Labours of the commitee continued to February 1788--commitee elect new members--vote thanks to Falconbridge and others--receive letters from Grove and others--circulate numerou...

_Observations on the three classes already introduced--Coincidence of extraordinary circumstances--Individuals in each of these classes, who seem to have had an education as it...

_Author devotes this chapter to considerations relative to himself--fears that by the frequent introduction of himself to the notice of the reader he may incur the charge of ost...

_The preceding history of the different classes of the forerunners and coadjutors, to the time of the formation of the commitee, collected into one view by means of a map--Expla...