An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I. The History of Slavery:
1. Introduction
2. The first class of involuntary slaves
3. The second class from piracy
4. Their personal treatment
5. The causes of such treatment among the ancients in general
6. The ancient slave-trade
7. The decline of this commerce and slavery in Europe
8. Their revival in Africa
Part II. The African Commerce or Slave-Trade:
1. The history of mankind
2. An account of the first governments
3. Liberty a natural right
4. Mankind cannot be considered as property
5. Division of the commerce into two parts
6. Their right with respect to convicts
7. Their right with respects to prisoners of war
8. Additional remarks on the two orders that were first mentioned
9. The right of the purchasers examined
Part III. The Slavery of the Africans in the European Colonies:
1. Imaginary scene in Africa
2. Their treatment on board
3. The condition of their posterity in the colonies
4. The seasoning in the colonies
5. The contents of the two preceding chapters denied by the purchasers
6. Three arguments refuted
7. The argument, that the Africans are an inferior link of the chain of nature, refuted
8. The argument, that the Africans are an inferior link of the chain of nature, refuted (cont.)
9. Other arguments of the purchasers examined
10. The right of the purchasers over their slaves refuted
11. Dreadful arguments against this commerce and slavery
John Newton's thoughts upon the African slave-trade.

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