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Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846

"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)"





CONTENTS

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.


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