LUKE HONEY’S
In the spring of 1807, the British parliament abolished the slave trade - one of the first countries to do so - followed, 26 years later, by a further act making the purchase or ownership of enslaved peoples illegal within most parts of the British Empire. From the early 19th century, the ‘West Africa Squadron’ of the Royal Navy patrolled the Atlantic, seizing and confiscating slave ships of other nations, liberating some
