- The Unnamed Dutch Slaver of 1819 — First Slaver Fitted Out in American Waters and the First American-built Slaver — When Human Beings were Frequently a Part of a Ship's General Cargo — How a Good Priest, through a Love of Humanity, Promoted the Traffic — Days when Christian Missionaries Found Profit in the Trade, and It Hurt the Conscience of No One Engaged in It — Kings and Nobles as Slave-traders — A Slaver Contract that was Considered a Magnificent Triumph of Diplomacy — The Yankee Slavers' Successful Stroke for Free Trade and Sailors' Rights — Extent of the Early Traffic, Page 1
OLD-TIME SLAVER CAPTAINS AND THEIR SHIPS
- David Lindsay as a Typical American Slaver of the Eighteenth Century — With a Rotten Ship that Showed Daylight Through Her Seams "All Round Her Bow Under Deck" He Reached the Slave-coast, Gathered His Cargo in Spite of Fevers, Deaths in the Crew, and Competition, and Finally Landed at Barbadoes with "All in Helth and Fatt" — An Astrologer's Chart for a Slaver's Voyage — Tales of the Slaver Vikings of Liverpool — Debt of Early American Commerce to the Slave-trade — John Paul Jones a Slaver, Page 21
WHEN VOYAGES WENT AWRY
- Tales of Trouble When Lying on the Slave-coast — "We are Ready to Devour One Another, for Our Case is Desprit" — A Second Mate's Unlucky Trip in a Long Boat — Sickness in the Hold as Well as Among the Crew — Cocoanuts and Oranges could not Serve in Place of Water — Story of the Mutiny on the Slaver Perfect — Risks the Underwriters Assumed — The Proportion of Disastrous Voyages,Page 31
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