PREFATORY REMARKS ON THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

CHAPTER I Introduction.--Estimate of the evil of the Slave
Trade; and of the blessing of the Abolition of it.--Usefulness
of the contemplation of this subject

CHAPTER II Those, who favoured the cause of the Africans
previously to 1787, were so many necessary forerunners in
it.--Cardinal Ximenes; and others

CHAPTER III Forerunners continued to 1787; divided now into four
classes.--First consists of persons in England of various
descriptions, Godwyn, Baxter, and others

CHAPTER IV Second, of the Quakers in England, George Fox, and
his religious descendants

CHAPTER V Third, of the Quakers in America.--Union of these with
individuals of other religious denominations in the same cause

CHAPTER VI Facility of junction between the members of these
three different classes

CHAPTER VII Fourth, consists of Dr. Peckard; then of the
Author.--Author wishes to embark in the cause; falls in with
several of the members of these classes

CHAPTER VIII Fourth class continued; Langton, Baker, and
others.--Author now embarks in the cause as a business of his
life

CHAPTER IX Fourth class continued; Sheldon, Mackworth, and
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 Fal