The state of Africa - inefficiency of the present attempts to destroy the slave-trade, the only remedy, slavery in Turkey, Egypt, Persia, wars of aggression, Sir Samuel Baker, Colonel Gordon; slave-trade in Afghanistan - the Ameer subsidised by England, supplied with arms used in carrying on the slave-trade, slavery on the Gold Coast, slavery and the slave-trade in Madagascar; slavery and the slave-trade in the Portuguese settlements on the East Coast of Africa and the African island of St. Thomas; slavery in Brazil - rapid decrease in the number of slaves, extraordinary death-rate, insufficiency of the abolition law of 1871, urgent necessity of freedom; the Asiatic slave-trade - the French colonies, British West Indies and Mauritius, Chinese in Peru; the Fiji islands - the contract system; slavery in Cuba - the slave-trade treaties, destruction of life, working of slavery on the estates, Captain Townshend's visit, fashionable prejudice, conduct of the blacks - testimony of governors of Jamaica, Leeward islands; civil war in Cuba - the Spanish government of the island, the two great parties, the revolution in Spain, 1868, special laws, abolition of slavery in Porto Rico, course of the late British cabinet; the Zanzibar treaty - legal difficulties as to its provisions, new routes by land for the slave-trade, condition of the African people where not demoralized by the slave-trader; Dr. Livingstone's last journals -Christian regard for human life, slave-trade as seen in his later years; Christian missions - Dr Livingstone, Colonel Cameron, new and extensive steam communication with Zanzibar, ports in Eastern Africa, projected ship canal, north western Africa; introduction of British Indian coolies into Surinam - the Dutch in Java, Dutch war of aggression in Acheen; Queensland - the labour traffic, condition of the islanders on the estates; coolies imported into the British West Indies during a period of 29 years - the number returned to their own country, their savings, number now in the colonies, the death-rate; concluding remarks.
