Britain's War Against the Slave Trade - The Operations of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron 1807
On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, abolishing the practise throughout the Empire. The following year the Royal Navy's West Afruca 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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