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

ISBN-13: 9781032313498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 150 str.

W. E. F. Ward

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

W.E.F. Ward