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Britain's War to End the Slave Trade on the High Seas: In chains across the ocean

Britain's War to End the Slave Trade on the High Seas: In chains across the ocean

Murch, Richard

Paperback

General SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798257967511
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
History remembers its monuments. It carves the names of slavery abolitionists into stone, raises statues to parliamentarians, and keeps alive the speeches that moved legislatures to act.

What it tends to forget - or never properly records - are the men who made abolition real, in the dark and the heat, far from applause.

The West Africa Squadron patrolled the Atlantic for more than six decades, from 1808 to 1870. At its height it comprised a fifth of the entire Royal Navy. It lost more men to disease than to enemy fire, its crews ravaged by yellow fever on a coast that sailors called the white man's grave. It seized over 1,600 slave ships. It freed approximately 150,000 captive Africans. And it is remembered almost nowhere.

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