On the 16th June, 1795, Coleridge delivered his Lecture on the Slave Trade. The day before giving the speech, Coleridge consulted various volumes in the Bristol Library, and gathered information for his lecture. In fact, much of his material appears as though directly lifted from his readings. The lecture aligns with abolitionist ideas and advocates a boycott of slave-grown goods, gives a detailed and damning depiction of the middle-passage and, at the close, likens slavery to English peasantry. A revised and condensed version of the lecture was published in Coleridge's radical journal The Watchman in 1796.