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The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade

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The author provides insight into the sailors, countries involved, ship battles, royal navy, ship labor, and salary, who was on the ships as crew and their duties, and how diseases and illnesses were handled. While the cause was honorable, it often failed to help the enslaved return home and did little to quell the desire for slave labor or improve the conditions of those captured. Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade. From an Abstract of Evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in 1790 and 1791. Omid Scobie's book 'names the royal racist': Sales of Endgame are dramatically halted in Holland after Dutch translation appears to reveal identity of family member accused of speaking about Archie's skin colour

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Love Island's Olivia Hawkins and Ella Thomas awkwardly turn up to The Beauty Awards in the EXACT same one-shoulder latex dress The world changed at 4am on 24 February 1807 when, following a 10 hour debate in the House of Commons, politicians finally voted to abolish the British slave trade. It was a monumental victory for the campaigners who’d worked for decades to topple the trade which had been dubbed “contrary to the principles of justice, humanity and sound policy”. Chief among them was William Wilberforce, who sat weeping with exhausted joy.

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'Black Joke' engaging the Spanish slave brig 'Almirante' in the Bight of Benin, 1 Feb 1829

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