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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

Abrégé des preuves données devant un comité de la Chambre des communes de la Grande Bretagne, en 1790 et 1791, en faveur de l’abolition de la traite des nègres, tradoit de l’anglais par Jean de Carro (Vienna: Antoine Strauss, 1814). French. Résumé du témoignage donné devant un comité de la Chambre des Communes de la Grande-Bretagne et de l’Irlande, touchant la traite des nègres (Paris : Adrien Égron, 1814). French.

Anti-Slavery International, 'Recovered Histories' collection. Friends House Library, London. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, University of London. British Library. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Evidence House Commons Committee Slave Trade Witnesses 1791 Abolition Testimony

This abolitionist publication brings together the testimonies against the slave trade presented to a House of Commons committee in 1790 and 1791. The honesty and respectability of the witnesses, and their personal experience of the slave trade are emphasised. Testimonies are included from witnesses who had been stationed in Africa, on board slave ships, and in slave plantations in the Americas, in order to prove the illegitimacy of the trade. A French translation was published in 1814 to inform public opinion in Europe.

Also published in Edinburgh for the Glasgow and Edinburgh Societies for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1791).