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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)"

--Author seeks for further information on the subject;
and visits Members of Parliament

CHAPTER X 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.

CHAPTER XI History of the preceding classes, and of their
junction, shown by means of a map.

CHAPTER XII Author endeavours to do away the charge of
ostentation in consequence of becoming so conspicuous in this
work.

CHAPTER XIII Proceedings of the Committee; Emancipation declared
to be no part of its object.--Wrongs of Africa by Mr. Roscoe.

CHAPTER XIV Author visits Bristol to collect
information.--Ill-usage of seamen in the Slave Trade.--Articles
of African produce.--Massacre at Calabar.

CHAPTER XV 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.

CHAPTER XVI 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.


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