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 CHAP. 11. History of the preceding classes, and of their junction, shown by means of a map CHAP. 12. Author endeavours to do away the charge of ostentation in consequence of becoming so conspicuous in this work CHAP. 13. Proceedings of the Committee--Emancipation declared to be no part of its object--Wrongs of Africa by Mr. Roscoe CHAP. 14. Author visits Bristol to collect information--Ill usage of seamen in the Slave-trade--Articles of African produce--Massacre at Calebàr CHAP. 15. 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 CHAP. 16. 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 CHAP. 17. Visits Liverpool--Specimens of African produce--Dock-duties--Iron-instruments used in the traffic--His introduction to Mr. Norris CHAP. 18. 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 CHAP. 19. Author proceeds to Manchester--delivers a discourse there on the subject of the Slave-trade--revisits Bristol--New and difficult situation--suddenly crosses the Severn at night--returns to London CHAP. 20. Labours of the Committee during the Author's journey--Mr. Sharp elected chairman--Seal engraved--Letters from different correspondents to the Committee CHAP. 21. Further labours of the Committee to February 1788--List of new Correspondents CHAP. 22. 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 CHAP. 23. 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. VOL. II.