Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron" video.

  1. Many were landed at Sierra Leone, which was a British Colony at the time and they were, therefore, safe from being re-enslaved. Between 1808 & 1860, British anti-slavery patrols captured some 1600 slave ships, and freed some 150,000 slaves. In December, 2017, the British National Archives displayed an early photograph of slaves aboard a Royal Navy warship, HMS Daphne, as symbolic of the 'profoundly oppressive' nature of the vile British Empire. Actually, the slaves had been rescued from an Arab dhow the previous day, and were on their way to freedom in the Seychelles. This was explained in detail to the National Archives staff by an historian who had the ship's log and the memoirs of her captain, George Sulivan, who also took the photograph. However, as this wouldn't fit the current narrative in what is rapidly becoming the country formerly known as Great Britain, as far as I know the caption was never changed.
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