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The Year the English Government Abandoned the Slave Trade, the Reason Few Slave Ships Were Caught by the English Royal Navy West Africa Squadron, the Number of Enslaved Persons Liberated Between 1808 – 1860, the English Monarch Who Adopted a Nigerian Daughter, the Etymology of the Name “Sarah Forbes Bonetta” (English Queen Victoria’s Daughter), the Ambiguity of Why U.S. Merchant Robert Bennet Forbes Provided Victoria With an Enslaved Adolescent, the Entry Victoria Wrote Within Her Diary Post Meeting Bonetta, Victoria’s View of Bonetta’s Hair, the Ambiguity of How Bonetta Felt Post Meeting Victoria, the Educational Institution Bonetta Attended Within England, the Reason Victoria Educated Bonetta, the Age Bonetta Married and the Name of Bonetta’s First Daughter, the Year U.S. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Migrated to England, the English Public’s Reception of Douglass, and One of the Wealthiest Locations in the World During the Mid 19th Century and the Reason for This

In 1807, 31 years before the abolition of slavery, Britain abandon the Atlantic slave trade. The West Africa Squadron was under resourced and plagued by corruption which is why despite being a British invention designed to deter transatlantic slave ships, approximately only 6% were caught. Between 1808 and the 1860’s, over 150,000 men, women, and children were liberated from the bonds of slavery. Queen Victoria was presented a young Nigerian girl who eventually became her adopted daughter. The g...


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