Item #18152 THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE SLAVERS. The suppression of The Atlantic Slave Trade. W. E. F. WARD.

THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE SLAVERS. The suppression of The Atlantic Slave Trade.

George Allen, London,1969. First Edition. pp.248. Illustrated. Very Good original cloth hardcover in Very Good protected dust jacket. Item #18152

For three years after Trafalgar the Royal Navy began to patrol the West Coast of Africa soley to suppress the trade in slaves.The Admiralty and the Abolisionists expected swift justice and an end to the trade in fact the fight lasted nearly sixty years.

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