Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898 by Bernard Edwards, Bernard Edwards
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898
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Bernard Edwards, Bernard Edwards
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Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898

Bernard Edwards, Bernard Edwards

218 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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On March 16, 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy’s African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the ...

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