Article: UNITED KINGDOM: ROYAL NAVY HELPS BRISTOL COMMEMORATE ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE

Article: Slave trade
The Press;  December 17, 2003 ;     313 words ... ... back at history and see that at the hub of the slave trade were African chiefs and Arab slavers. The slave ... Selassie 1. An Act of Parliament and the power of the Royal Navy ended the slave trade. It appears the Rastafarians don't seem keen ...

Article: Stopping the slave trade on high seas 100 years ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... being freed by the Royal Navy have gone on show ... abolition of the slave trade. Samuel Chidwick ... in subduing the slave trade. The collection ... Chasing Freedom - The Royal Navy and the suppression ... the Transatlantic Slave Trade - is being held ...

Article: UNITED KINGDOM: CINEMA TRAILER CELEBRATES NAVY'S ROLE IN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 23, 2007 ;     462 words ... ... Ministry of Defence's Royal Navy issued the following ... glossy minute-long Royal Navy trailer celebrating its role in suppressing the slave trade 200 years ago will be ... Gruffudd. The star of the Royal Navy trailer is not an actress ...

Article: Drake was slave trader - the Navy says so ; Your correspondent S ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  April 1, 2008 ;     496 words ... ... slave trader - but Drake died long before the slave trade started." The Royal Navy website www.royal-navy.mod.uk, in the ... bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade but, sadly, it is acknowledged that there are ...

Article: How the navy helped end slave trade.
The News (Portsmouth, England);  January 29, 2007 ;     650 words ...FIGHTING deadly tropical diseases as well as the desperate miseries of the slave trade, the men of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron paid a terrible price. More than 1,500 sailors perished in the battle to stop men, women and children ...

Article: The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the abolition of ...
Yale Law Journal;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... base from which the Royal Navy aggressively intercepted ... trans-Atlantic slave trade. Thorpe's court ... abolition of the slave trade. In his masterful study of the Royal Navy's role as the ... that "[t]he Slave Trade was ... suppressed ...

Article: SLAVE TRADE: The history of slave ...
Tri-State Defender;  February 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... European slavery. The slave trade began in America in the ... coast to shippers in the slave trade. The trade was banned ... ignored and the British Royal Navy was ordered to enforce ... eliminating the Atlantic slave trade by the end of 19th century ...