NOTES:
[118] History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave-trade by the British Parliament (1808). Second enlarged edition 1839. The chart was one cause of the offence taken by Wilberforce's sons.
[119] Cf. Sir J. Stephen's Ecclesiastical Biography (The Evangelical Succession).
[120] See passages collected in Birkbeck Hill's Boswell, ii. 478-80, and cf. iii. 200-204. Boswell was attracted by Clarkson, but finally made up his mind that the abolition of the slave-trade would 'shut the gates of mercy on mankind.'
[121] See the account of G. Sharp in Sir J. Stephen's Ecclesiastical Biography (Clapham Sect).
[122] Cobbett's State Trials, xx. 1-82.
[123] The Society determined in 1760 'to disown' any Friend concerned in the slave-trade.
[124] Mr. Conway, in his Life of Paine, attributes, I think, a little more to his hero than is consistent with due regard to his predecessors; but, in any case, he took an early part in the movement.
[125] See upon this subject Mr. Jephson's interesting book on The Platform.