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Envoys of abolition - British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa (Paperback)
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Envoys of abolition - British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 15
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After Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a
squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa
tasked with suppressing the thriving transatlantic slave trade.
Drawing on previously unpublished papers found in private
collections and various archives in the UK and abroad, this book
examines the personal and cultural experiences of the naval
officers at the frontline of Britain's anti-slavery campaign in
West Africa. It explores their unique roles in this 60-year
operation: at sea, boarding slave ships bound for the Americas and
'liberating' captive Africans; on shore, as Britain resolved to
'improve' West African societies; and in the metropolitan debates
around slavery and abolitionism in Britain. Their personal
narratives are revealing of everyday concerns of health, rewards
and strategy, to more profound questions of national honour,
cultural encounters, responsibility for the lives of others in the
most distressing of circumstances, and the true meaning of
'freedom' for formerly enslaved African peoples. British
anti-slavery efforts and imperial agendas were tightly bound in the
nineteenth century, inseparable from ideas of national identity.
This is a book about individuals tasked with extraordinary service,
military men who also worked as guardians, negotiators, and envoys
of abolition.
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