--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 of
opponents' evidence resumed in the Commons.--Author travels in
quest of new evidence on the side of the Abolition; this, after
great opposition, introduced.
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