Anthony Sullivan - Britains War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navys West Africa Squadron 1807-1867

Britains War Against the Slave Trade

Britains War Against the Slave Trade

The Operations of the Royal Navys West Africa Squadron 18071867

Anthony Sullivan

First published in Great Britain in 2020 by

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Iwould like to thank the staff of the National Archives, Kew, for their assistance whilst researching this book. The online British Newspaper Archive was also a valuable source of information as were the digitised Papers Presented To Parliament detailing the operations of various Mixed-Commission and Vice-Admiralty courts (including those at St Helena not eaten by termites!).

Since the release of Christopher Lloyds The Navy and the Slave Trade in 1949 there has been surprisingly little written about the Royal Navys six-decade-long suppression campaign and I am indebted to Peter Grindal for his recent, meticulously researched work, Opposing the Slavers. Other authors whose work I found most useful include Leslie Bethell, Bernard Edwards, Jenny S. Martinez, Andrew Pearson and Sin Rees. Finally, I would like to thank all at Pen and Sword Books, especially John Grehan for initially suggesting the project and Lisa Hoosan and Stephen Chumbley for their help in the preparation of this book.

Excerpts from Opposing the Slavers are Grindal, P. 2016, Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navys Campaign against the Atlantic Slave Trade, I.B. Tauris, used by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. Excerpts from Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders are Edwards, B. Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 18081898 (Pen and Sword Books, 2007). Excerpts from Sweet Water and Bitter are Sin Rees 2009, Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships that Stopped the Slave Trade, first published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus in 2009.

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