[African Slave Trade] Lloyd, Christopher.

The Navy and the Slave Trqde. The Suppression of the African Slave Trade on the Nineteenth Century.

London: Longmans & Green, 1949. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good plus copy in an unclipped dust jacket with chipping to the extremities and spots of paper loss to the front panel and spine. The author recounts the suppression of the foreign slave trade by England's Royal Navy with the help of Foreign Office records, dispatches between naval commanders and slave trade commissioners, Parliament debates, and the logs of certain ships. The English Navy worked both the east and west coasts of Africa in its attempts to bring an end to the slave trade. Illustrated with plates and two maps. Item #28157

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