OF

THE DEBATE

IN THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

ON THE 15TH MAY, 1823,

ON A MOTION FOR THE MITIGATION AND GRADUAL

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH DOMINIONS.

WITH

A PREFACE AND APPENDIXES,

CONTAINING FACTS AND REASONINGS ILLUSTRATIVE OF
COLONIAL BONDAGE.

LONDON:

Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, Gough Square;

FOR THE

SOCIETY FOR THE MITIGATION AND GRADUAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH DOMINIONS ;

AND

SOLD BY J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY; AND

J. AND A. ARCH, CORNHILL.

HT 1165

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HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER,

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

THE MOST HONBLE THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.

THE RIGHT HONBLE THE EARL OF BRISTOL.

THE RIGHT HONBLE EARL NUGENT.

THE RIGHT HONBLE LORD SUFFIELD.

THE RIGHT HONBLE LORD CALTHORPE.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, M. P.

HENRY BROUGHAM, ESQ., M. P.

JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH, ESQ., M. P.
THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON, ESQ., M. P.

THOMAS CLARKSON, ESQ.

WILLIAM DILLWYN, ESQ.

WILLIAM EVANS, ESQ., M. P.

GEORGE HARRISON, ESQ.

STEPHEN LUSHINGTON, LL.D., M. P.

W. T. MONEY, ESQ., M. P.

RICHARD PHILLIPS, ESQ.

WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ., M. P.

JAMES STEPHEN, ESQ.

SAMUEL CHARLES WHITBREAD, ESQ., M. P.

W. W. WHITMORE, ESQ., M. P.

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ., M. P.