Hence a disposition manifested itself among these, to unite as labourers for the furtherance of so desirable an object.

An union was at length proposed and approved of, and the following persons (placed in alphabetical order) came together to execute the offices growing out of it: William Dillwyn, Thomas Knowles, M.D.
George Harrison, John Lloyd, Samuel Hoare, Joseph Woods.
[Footnote A: The Quakers, as a public body, kept the subject alive at their yearly meeting in 1784, 1785, 1787, &c.] The first meeting was held on the seventh of July, 1783.

At this "they assembled to consider what steps they should take for the relief and liberation of the Negro slaves in the West Indies, and for the discouragement of the Slave-trade on the coast of Africa." To promote this object they conceived it necessary that the public mind should be enlightened respecting it.

They had recourse therefore to the public papers, and they appointed their members in turn to write in these, and to see that their productions were inserted.

They kept regular minutes for this purpose.