An abstract of the evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791, on the part of the petitioners for the abolition of the slave trade.

Bound in is the woodcut known as 'Description of a Slave Ship' or 'Description of the Slave Ship Brookes' (435 x 415 mm, folded to 210 x 130 mm), conceived by Thomas Clarkson and other members of the London Committee of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and modeled on the Brooks ship. The print diagrams the front and side views and multiple overviews of the ship Brooks and figures representing hundreds of enslaved adults and children imprisoned in the vessel.
Map of the western coast of Africa: 262 x 148 mm, on sheet 290 x 325 mm, folded to 210 x 130 mm.
"An alphabetical list of the names of witnesses examined by the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the part of the Petitioners of Great Britain for the abolition of the slave-trade"--pp. xvii-xxvi.