Britain's War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron 1807-1867

The true story of the Royal Navy's sixty-year campaign to stop slavery across the British Empire, decades before the American Civil War.

Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings, and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Brita...