Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders : Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898
(2020)
By:
Edwards, Bernard
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2020
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (224 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781844689491 MWT13069482, 1844689492 13069482
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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