conbridge; 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