The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

The author traces the British campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade, recounting early critics, religious and civic forerunners, the formation of activist committees, and extensive evidence-gathering tours exposing shipboard conditions and commercial practices. He follows parliamentary debates and repeated bills, the setbacks and eventual passage of a law abolishing the trade, and administrative, diplomatic, and moral questions that followed, including enforcement, international coordination, reparative measures for Africa, and the condition of enslaved people in the colonies. The narrative combines documentary testimony, maps and ship plans, and personal recollection to explain how sustained public pressure produced legal and political change.