1st Edition

The Royal Navy and the Slavers The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By W.E.F. Ward Copyright 1969
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy’s 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the British Government’s diplomatic pressure on other countries to discontinue the slave trade. It analyses Captain’s logs and despatches, and their evidence at trials of the men they captured, as well as looking at the messages from British ambassadors and consuls around the world.

    1. Prologue in Parliament  2. The Men and the Ships  3. Opening the Campaign  4. Foreign Governments and Foreign Lawyers  5. Fighting Against Odds  6. The Equipment Clause  7. The Stars and Stripes  8. Triumph, Disappointment, Revival  9. The West Coast in the Fifties  10. The Close of the Campaign

    Biography

    W.E.F. Ward