Envoys of abolition – British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave…
Envoys of AbolitionBritish Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa\nAuthor(s): Mary Wills\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781789620788, 978-1789620788\nSynopsis\nAfter Britains 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 Drawing on previously unpublished papers found in private collections and various archives in the UK and abroad, this book examines the personal and cultural experiences of the naval officers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 Britains 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 aboliti.
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