The next day, having previously taken down the substance of the conversation at the dinner, I went to James Phillips, and desired that our friends might be called together as soon as they conveniently could, to hear my report.  In the interim I wrote to Dr. Peckard, and waited upon Lord Scarsdale, Dr. Baker, and others, to know (supposing a society were formed for the abolition of the Slave-trade) if I might say they would belong to it?  All of them replied in the affirmative, and desired me to represent them, if there should be any meeting for this purpose.

At the time appointed, I met my friends.  I read over the substance of the conversation which had taken place at Mr. Langton’s.  No difficulty occurred.  All were unanimous for the formation of a commitee.  On the next day we met by agreement for this purpose.  It was then resolved unanimously, among other things, That the Slave-trade was both impolitic and unjust.  It was resolved also, That the following persons be a commitee for procuring such information and evidence, and publishing the same, as may tend to the abolition of the Slave-trade, and for directing the application of such moneys as have been already, and may hereafter be collected for the above purpose.

  Granville Sharp. 
  William Dillwyn. 
  Samuel Hoare. 
  George Harrison. 
  John Lloyd. 
  Joseph Woods. 
  Thomas Clarkson. 
  Richard Phillips. 
  John Barton. 
  Joseph Hooper. 
  James Phillips. 
  Philip Sansom.

All these were present.  Granville Sharp, who stands at the head of the list, and who, as the father of the cause in England, was called to the chair, may be considered as representing the first class of forerunners and coadjutors, as it has been before described.  The five next, of whom Samuel Hoare was chosen as the treasurer, were they who had been the commitee of the second class, or of the Quakers in England, with the exception of Dr. Knowles, who was then dying, but who, having heard of our meeting, sent a message to us, to exhort us to proceed.  The third class, of that of the Quakers in America, may be considered as represented by William Dillwyn, by whom they were afterwards joined to us in correspondence.  The two who stand next, and in which I am included, may be considered as representing the fourth, most of the members of which we had been the means of raising.  Thus, on the twenty-second of May 1787, the representatives of all the four classes, of which I have been giving a history from the year 1516, met together, and were united in that commitee, to which I have been all along directing the attention of the reader; a commitee, which, labouring afterwards with Mr. Wilberforce as a parliamentary head, did, under Providence, in the space of twenty years, contribute to put an end to a trade, which, measuring its magnitude, by its crimes and sufferings, was the greatest practical evil that ever afflicted the human race.