the same bright sun of consolation may visit her children there.  But here a new hope rises to our view.  Who knows but that emancipation, like a beautiful plant, may, in its due season, rise out of the ashes of the abolition of the Slave-trade, and that, when its own intrinsic value shall be known, the seed of it may be planted in other lands?  And looking at the subject in this point of view, we cannot but be struck with the wonderful concurrence of events as previously necessary for this purpose, namely, that two nations, England and America, the mother and the child, should, in the same month of the same year, have abolished this impious traffic; nations, which at this moment have more than a million of subjects within their jurisdiction to partake of the blessing; and one of which, on account of her local situation and increasing power, is likely in time to give, if not law, at least a tone to the manners and customs of the great continent, on which she is situated.

Reader!  Thou art now acquainted with the history of this contest!  Rejoice in the manner of its termination!  And, if thou feelest grateful for the event, retire within thy closet, and pour out thy thanksgivings to the Almighty for this his unspeakable act of mercy to thy oppressed fellow-creatures.

THE END.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOL.  I.

CHAP. 1.  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

CHAP. 2.  Those, who favoured the cause of the Africans previously to 1787, were so many necessary forerunners in it—­Cardinal Ximenes—­and others

CHAP. 3.  Forerunners continued to 1787—­divided now into four classes—­First consists of persons in England of various descriptions, Godwyn, Baxter, and others

CHAP. 4.  Second, of the Quakers in England, George Fox, and his religious descendants

CHAP. 5.  Third, of the Quakers in America—­Union of these with individuals of other religious denominations in the same cause

CHAP. 6.  Facility of junction between the members of these three different classes

CHAP. 7.  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

CHAP. 8.  Fourth class continued—­Langton—­Baker—­and others—­Author now embarks in the cause as a business of his life

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