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Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders

Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898

Bernard Edwards
5
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Pages
224
Year
2008
Language
English

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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 Navys African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East.

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