CHAP. 9. Fourth class continued—Sheldon—Mackworth—and others—Author seeks for further information on the subject—and visits Members of Parliament
CHAP. 10. 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
CHAP. 11. History of the preceding classes, and of their junction, shown by means of a map
CHAP. 12. Author endeavours to do away the charge of ostentation in consequence of becoming so conspicuous in this work
CHAP. 13. Proceedings of the Committee—Emancipation declared to be no part of its object—Wrongs of Africa by Mr. Roscoe
CHAP. 14. Author visits Bristol to collect information—Ill usage of seamen in the Slave-trade—Articles of African produce—Massacre at Calebàr
CHAP. 15. 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
CHAP. 16. Author meets with Alexander Falconbridge—visits ill-treated and disabled seamen—takes a mate out of one of the Slave-vessels—and puts another in prison for murder
CHAP. 17. Visits Liverpool—Specimens of African produce—Dock-duties—Iron-instruments used in the traffic—His introduction to Mr. Norris
CHAP. 18. 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