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    Africa Squadron, also known as the Preventative Squadron, was a squadron of the British Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade...
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    The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave...
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    Blockade of Africa (category Atlantic slave trade)
    13th Amendment. The Royal Navy squadron remained in operation until 1870. The Slave Trade Act 1807 stated that: The African Slave Trade, and all manner...
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    States, a squadron of U.S. Navy warships and cutters were assigned to catch slave traders in and around Africa. In 42 years about 100 suspected slave ships...
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    HMS Black Joke (1827) (category Ships of the West Africa Squadron)
    probably built in Baltimore in 1824, becoming the Brazilian slave ship Henriquetta. The Royal Navy captured her in September 1827, and purchased her into...
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  • onboard slave ships and rescued by anti-slavery patrols from the West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy. After the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade...
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    Slavery (redirect from Slave labor)
    Retrieved September 29, 2015. "The West African Squadron and slave trade". Pdavis.nl. Retrieved August 29, 2010. "Anti-Slavery International: UNESCO Education"...
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    Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships...
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    By Jo Loosemore BBC "The West African Squadron and slave trade". Pdavis.nl. Retrieved 4 December 2011. Anti-Slavery International UNESCO. Retrieved...
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    the overseas slave trade a felony throughout the empire. The Royal Navy established the West Africa Squadron to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling...
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  • trade from Guinea, and known for her conflict with the British Royal Navy Anti-Slave Squadron. Mary Faber was born in Freetown, the daughter of Nova Scotian...
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    medieval world. When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century)...
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    punishable by death. Between 1808 and 1860, the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were...
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    Parliament prohibited dealing in slaves by passing the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron enforced. Britain used its influence...
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    1851 that involved the Royal Navy bombarding Lagos (in present-day Nigeria) under the justification of suppressing the Atlantic slave trade and deposing the...
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    Navy's West Africa Squadron in 1809. The United States denied the Royal Navy the right to stop and search U.S. ships suspected as slave ships, so not only...
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    their sealing activities. African Slave Trade Patrol West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations of the United States Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations of the United...
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  • Joseph Denman (category Officers of the West Africa Squadron)
    most noted for his actions against the slave trade as a commander of HMS Wanderer of the West Africa Squadron. Denman was born on 23 June 1810, the son...
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     1857), Guinean slave trader known for her conflict with the West Africa Squadron. Peter Faneuil (1700–1743), Colonial American slave trader and owner...
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    pp. 255–256. David T. Haberly (1972). Abolitionism in Brazil: Anti-slavery and anti-slave. Luso-Brazilian. pp. 30–46. "Chinese Cultural Studies: The Taiping...
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    establishment of the West Africa Squadron: 42, 64, 201  The British also worked to persuade other nations to end their involvement in slave trading. At the same time...
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    self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was the only known slave uprising in...
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    Geoffrey Hornby (category Officers of the West Africa Squadron)
    be mate in the sixth-rate HMS Cleopatra, in the West Africa Squadron, and took part on anti-slavery operations. Promoted to lieutenant on 15 June 1845...
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  • Africa Squadron, involved in anti-slavery operations against the Atlantic slave trade from west Africa to the Americas. A list of captures of slave trade...
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  • British captured the slave ship Henriquetta and renamed her HMS Black Joke. She went on to become one of the most successful anti-slavery vessels in the...
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    on 26 February and joined Commodore James Biddle's squadron for the suppression of piracy and slave trading in the West Indies. On 25 March, Lt. Perry...
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    Bombardment of Algiers (1816) (category Barbary slave trade)
    Algiers, backed by a small squadron of ships of the line, to convince the Deys to stop the practice and free the Christian slaves. The Deys of Tunis and Tripoli...
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    Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton, (12× Gazelle AH.1, 6× Lynx AH.1) 2 Raiding Squadron, Royal Marines Reserve, Plymouth 131 Independent Commando Squadron, Royal...
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    supply them with slaves, but it was refused. December 2, 1711, Jacques Cassard obtained from the French king the command of a squadron of eight vessels...
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    as of 31 October 2023. Ali Al Salem AB, Al Jahra District 7 Squadron 18 Squadron  Oman Royal Air Force of Oman – 12 ordered in December 2012 with all delivered...
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