John Broich, Associate Professor, Department of History

(The Overlook Press) The true account of the British Royal Navy’s crusade to put an end to the African slave trade once and for all

Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained down the east coast of Africa through the mid-1800s, even after the Civil War ended it in the United States. What further undermined the British Empire was that many of the vessels involved in the trade were themselves British ships.

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*Brioche, John. Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade. The Overlook Press, 2017.