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Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898

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 Americas and the Middle East."

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