The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade | Page 2

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
CHAPTER XXXIII
Continuation from July, 1806, to July, 1807.--Death of Mr. Fox.--Bill
for the total abolition carried in the Lords; sent from thence to the
Commons; amended, and passed there, and sent back to the Lords;
receives the royal assent.--Reflections on this great event
Map

Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship
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PREFATORY REMARKS
TO
THE PRESENT EDITION.
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The invaluable services rendered by Thomas Clarkson to the great
question of the Slave Trade in all its branches, have been universally
acknowledged both at home and abroad, and have gained him a high
place among the greatest benefactors of mankind. The History of the
Abolition which this volume contains, affords some means of
appreciating the extent of his sacrifices and his labours in this cause.
But after these, with the unwearied exertions of William Wilberforce,
had conducted its friends to their final triumph, in 1807, they did not
then rest from their labours. There remained four most important
objects, to which the anxious attention of all Abolitionists was now
directed.
First,--The law had been passed, forced upon the Planters, the Traders,
and the Parliament, by the voice of the people; and there was a
necessity for keeping a watchful eye over its execution.
Secondly,--The statute, however rigorously it might be enforced, left, of
course, the whole amount of the Foreign Slave traffic untouched, and it
was infinitely to be desired that means should be adopted for extending
our Abolition to other nations.
Thirdly,--Some compensation was due to Africa, for the countless
miseries which our criminal conduct had for ages inflicted upon her,
and strict justice, to say nothing of common humanity and Christian
charity, demanded that every means should be used for aiding in the

progress of her civilization, and effacing as far as possible the