Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Beckett UniversityRichard Huzzey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery

• Introduction1 Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore – Robert Burroughs 2 The politics of slave-trade suppression – Richard Huzzey3 ‘Tis enough that we give them liberty’? Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave-trade suppression – Emma Christopher4 A ‘most miserable business’: naval officers’ experiences of slave-trade suppression – Mary Wills5 British and African health in the anti-slave-trade squadron – John Rankin6 Slave-trade suppression and the culture of anti-slavery in nineteenth-century Britain – Robert Burroughs7 Slave-trade suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth-century Britain – David Lambert8 History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave-trade suppression – Richard Huzzey and John McAleerIndex

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