A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Introduction; 1. Sources of information; 2. Methods by which the slaves are supplied in Africa; 3. Slave trade's effects in the interior and on the coast; 4. Proof of abolitionists' facts decisive, and contrary allegations groundless; 5. Plea against abolition, that Negroes are an inferior race; 6. Opponents' description of Negro character contrasted with other accounts; 7. Argument from Africa's never having been civilized, considered; 8. New phaenomenon - interior of Africa more civilized than coast; 9. Plea of opponents, that slaves state in Africa extremely miserable; 10. Plea from cruelty of African despots; 11. Ditto, that refused slaves would be massacred in case of abolition; 12. Middle passage; 13. Opponents' grand objection - that stock of slaves cannot be kept up in West Indies without importations; 14. Presumptive arguments against the above allegation, from universal experience; 15. Positive proof that the stock of slaves might be kept up without importations - argument stated; 1. Abuses sufficient to account for great decrease; 2. Yet, though abuses so great, the decrease quite inconsiderable; 3. Hence, abuses being corrected, slaves would rapidly increase; Appendix; Letter to His Excellency the Prince of Talleyrand Perigord on the subject of the slave trade (1814).