But independently of the quantity of physical suffering and the innumerable avenues to vice in more than a quarter of the globe, which this great measure will cut off, there are yet blessings, which we have reason to consider as likely to flow from it. Among these we cannot overlook the great probability, that Africa, now freed from the vicious and barbarous effects of this traffic, may be in a better state to comprehend and receive the sublime truths of the Christian religion. Nor can we overlook the probability, that, a new system of treatment necessarily springing up in our islands, 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