| 1 | Author: | Wood, J. Taylor | Add | | Title: | The Capture of a Slaver | | | Published: | 1994 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | FROM 1830 to 1850 both Great Britain and the United States, by
joint convention, kept on the coast of Africa at least eighty guns
afloat for the suppression of the slave trade. Most of the vessels
so employed were small corvettes, brigs, or schooners; steam at
that time was just being introduced into the navies of the world. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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