CHAPTER XVII Visits Liverpool.--Specimens of African produce.--Dock duties.--Iron instruments used in the traffic.--His introduction to Mr. Norris.

CHAPTER XVIII 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.

CHAPTER XIX Author proceeds to Manchester; delivers a discourse there on the subject of the Slave Trade.--Revisits Bristol; new and difficult situation there; suddenly crosses the Severn at night.--Returns to London.

CHAPTER XX Labours of the Committee during the Author's journey.--Mr. Sharp elected chairman.--Seal engraved.--Letters from different correspondents to the Committee.

CHAPTER XXI Further labours of the Committee to February, 1788.--List of new Correspondents.

CHAPTER XXII Progress of the cause to the middle of May.--Petitions to Parliament.--Author's interviews with Mr. Pitt and Mr. Grenville.--Privy Council inquire into the subject; examine Liverpool delegates.--Proceedings of the Committee for the Abolition.--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.--Renewal of the Middle Passage Bill.--Section of the slave-ship.--Cowper's _Negro's Complaint_.--Wedgewood's Cameos.

CHAPTER XXVI Continuation from July, 1790, to July, 1791.--Author travels again.--Examinations on the side of the Abolition resumed in the Commons; list of those examined.--Cruel circumstances of the times.--Motion for the Abolition of the Trade; debates; motion lost.--Resolutions of the Committee.--Sierra Leone Company established.

CHAPTER XXVII Continuation from July, 1791, to July, 1792.--Author travels again.--People begin to leave off sugar; petition Parliament.--Motion renewed in the Commons; debates; abolition resolved upon, but not to commence till 1796.--The Lords determine upon hearing evidence on the resolution; this evidence introduced; further hearing of it postponed to the next Session

CHAPTER XXVIII Continuation from July, 1792, to July, 1793.--Author travels again.--Motion to renew the Resolution of the last year in the Commons; motion lost.--New motion to abolish the foreign Slave Trade; motion lost.--Proceeding of the Lords

CHAPTER XXIX Continuation from July, 1793, to July, 1794.--Author travels again.--Motion to abolish the foreign Slave Trade renewed, and carried; but lost in the Lords; further proceedings there.--Author, on account of declining health, obliged to retire from the cause