African Slave Trade Patrol
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African Slave Trade Patrol was part of the Blockade of Africa suppressing the Atlantic slave trade between 1819 and the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861. Due to the abolitionist movement in the United States, a squadron of U.S. Navy warships and cutters were assigned to catch slave traders in and around Africa. In 42 years about 100 suspected slave ships were captured.[1][2]
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Part of the suppression of the Slave Trade | |||||||
USS Perry confronting the slaver Martha off Ambiz in 1850. | |||||||
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United States | African slave traders | ||||||
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Matthew C. Perry George W. Storer William Compton Bolton George H. Perkins Andrew Hull Foote Thomas Crabbe Daniel Dobbins |
Jozé Antonio de la Vega Francis Bowen |
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