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    S2CID 144527405. Watt, James (2002). "The Health of Seamen in Anti-Slavery Squadrons". The Mariner's Mirror. 88 (1): 69–78. doi:10.1080/00253359.2002...
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    Man's Lament, Or, How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie (London, 1826) An anti-slavery map with an unusual perspective centered on West Africa, which is in...
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    part of wider rationalisation of English statute law; however, later anti-slavery legislation remains in force. In May 1772, Lord Mansfield's judgment...
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    the American Anti-Slavery Group, Anti-Slavery International, Free the Slaves, the Anti-Slavery Society, and the Norwegian Anti-Slavery Society continue...
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    often ascribed generally to anti-slavery operations during the period leading up to the American Civil War. The squadron was an outgrowth of the 1819...
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    Sailing against slavery. By Jo Loosemore BBC "The West African Squadron and slave trade". Pdavis.nl. Retrieved 4 December 2011. Anti-Slavery International...
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    Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation (which occurred from approximately AD 43 to AD 410) and endured until the 11th century, when the...
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    The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States...
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    African Squadron and slave trade". pdavis.nl. Retrieved 2019-08-09. "Why was Slavery finally abolished in the British Empire?". The Abolition of Slavery Project...
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    Blockade of Africa (category Anti-slavery military operations)
    African Squadron to patrol the coast of Africa effectively. Following the 1807 Act, two ships had been dispatched to the African coast for anti-slavery patrol...
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    Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in much of...
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    incentive to increase the strength of the Africa Squadron. The ship was also fitted out and used in anti-slavery operations. On October 30, 1845, Truxtun weighed...
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    Abolition of Slavery Act", Spartacus Educational. Jo Loosemore, "Sailing against slavery", BBC – Devon, 24 September 2014. The West African Squadron and slave...
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    Christian views on slavery are varied regionally, historically and spiritually. Slavery in various forms has been a part of the social environment for...
    109 KB (14,278 words) - 22:33, 26 June 2024
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    he was stationed in Zanzibar where he served in the Royal Navy's Anti-Slavery Squadron. He commanded the cruisers Orlando during her operations on the...
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  • illegally enslaved onboard slave ships and rescued by anti-slavery patrols from the West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy. After the British Parliament passed...
    7 KB (802 words) - 20:47, 4 May 2024
  • Squadron, or Preventative Squadron as it was also known, continued to pursue Portuguese, American, French, and Cuban slave ships and to impose anti-slavery...
    8 KB (1,241 words) - 15:31, 30 May 2024
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    part. Opponents of slavery considered it an anachronistic evil incompatible with republicanism. The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was to stop expansion...
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    Navy's West Africa Squadron, established in 1808, grew by 1850 to a force of some 25 vessels, which were tasked with combating slavery along the African...
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    HMS Black Joke (1827) (category Ships of the West Africa Squadron)
    put Dos Amigos up for auction, where the commodore of the British Anti-Slavery Squadron, Jonathan Hayes, bought her and named her Fair Rosamond. In December...
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