Opposing the slavers the Royal Navy's campaign against the Atlantic slave trade /
"While much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century, few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. In Opposing the Slavers Peter Grindal shows h...
| Main Author: | Grindal, Peter, 1943- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London :
I.B. Tauris,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: |
xxxii, 863 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | New paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Prologue: The beginning of a great matter
- Part 1: The trade. Three centuries of transatlantic slaving ; The realities of the trade ; The slave coasts and seas
- Part 2: The suppression campaign. Confused first steps, 1807-11 ; The tip of the iceberg, 1811-15 ; Into a legal minefield, 1815-20 ; The most evident falsehoods, 1820-4 ; A lonely furrow : eastern seas, 1824-8 ; Tenders and tablecloths : eastern seas, 1828-31 ; Gallant pinpricks : western seas, 1824-31 ; To the Cape station : eastern seas, 1831-5 ; An uncertain sound : western seas, 1831-5 ; The Spanish Equipment Clause : eastern seas, 1835-8 ; Obduracy and obfuscation : western seas, 1835-8 ; High-handed action : eastern seas, 1838-9 ; Forbearance exhausted : western seas, 1838-9
- Part 3: Conclusion. Summary: Taking stock ; Epilogue: Until it be thoroughly finished
- Guide to abbreviations used in the notes, bibliography and appendices
- Appendix A: Suspected slave vessels detained 1807-39 by Royal Navy cruisers, colonial vessels and letters of marque vessels
- Appendix B: Treaties, conventions and conferences concerning Atlantic slave-trade suppression, 1807-39
- Appendix C: Acts of Parliament and Orders in Council relating to suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807-40
- Appendix D: Commanders-in-Chief, Commodores and senior officers appointed to conduct slave-trade suppression operations, 1807-39
- Appendix E: The Equipment Clause : criteria for arrest under the Equipment Clause in various bilateral treaties
- Appendix F: Declarations and certificates : forms ordered to be used by captors on detention of suspected slave vessels
- Appendix G: Mortality in the West Africa squadron, 1825-39
- Appendix H: Annual imports of slaves to Cuba and Brazil, 1807-39
- Appendix I: Comparative values of sterling, 1807-39
- Appendix J: Pivot-gun arrangement in HMS Lynx
- Glossary.