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56. Fifth annual report of the Glasgow Emancipation Society : having for its objects the universal abolition of slavery and the slave trade; the protection of the rights of the aboriginal inhabitants of the British colonies; and the bettering of the condition of our fellow-subjects, the natives of British India : also, Report of the Ladies' Auxiliary Society. ... With an appendix, containing speeches at the anniversary meeting, list of subscribers, abstract of the cash account of both societies, and much important and interesting information.

57. A history of the Amistad captives : being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage, and capture near Long Island, New York; with biographical sketches of each of the surviving Africans. : Also, an account of the trials had on their case, before the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, for the district of Connecticut.

65. Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the right of petition : the power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia : the implied faith of the North and the South to each other in forming the Constitution; and the principles, purposes, and prospects of abolition : delivered in the House of Representatives, on the 18th and 20th January, 1840.

72. The martyr age of the United States of America : with an appeal on behalf of the Oberlin Institute in aid of the abolition of slavery. Re-published from the London and Westminster review, by the Newcastle upon Tyne Emancipation and Aborigines Protection Society.