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The Black Joke - The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade (Hardcover)
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The Black Joke - The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade (Hardcover)
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**Longlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Media Awards 2022** A
groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of
the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight
to end the transatlantic slave trade. Initially a slaving vessel
itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the
Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five
years, the vessel liberated more enslaved people than any other in
Britain's West Africa Squadron. As Britain attempted to snuff out
the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation,
enforcing these policies fell to ships such as the Black Joke as
they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama
among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. The Black
Joke is a crucial and deeply compelling work of history, both as a
reckoning with slavery and abolition and as a lesson about the
power of political will - or the lack thereof.
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