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Blockade of Africa

Index Blockade of Africa

The Blockade of Africa began in 1808 after the United Kingdom outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 72 relations: Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, American Civil War, American Colonization Society, American Revolutionary War, Andrew Jackson, Ascension Island, Atlantic slave trade, Barbary pirates, Brazil Squadron, Cape Mesurado, Cape Town, Charles Bullen, Charles William Maxwell, Coastwise slave trade, Congo River, Congress of Vienna, Constitution of the United States, Economy of the Confederate States of America, Era of Good Feelings, Fowell Buxton, Francisco Félix de Sousa, Freetown, Full Fact, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, History of slavery, Home Squadron, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Indian Ocean slave trade, James Madison, Jean Lafitte, John Forsyth (politician), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Joseph Denman, Kru people, Liberia, Louisiana Purchase, Lyons–Seward Treaty of 1862, Mary Faber de Sanger, Matthew C. Perry, Mexican–American War, Mixed Commission Court, Napoleonic Wars, National Museum of the Royal Navy, New Orleans, Niger expedition of 1841, Pax Britannica, Philadelphia, Piracy, Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, ... Expand index (22 more) »

  2. 19th-century history of the Royal Navy
  3. Abolitionism in Africa
  4. Blockades by the United Kingdom
  5. Blockades by the United States
  6. History of West Africa
  7. Slavery in North America
  8. Slavery in South America
  9. Slavery in the British Empire
  10. Slavery in the Caribbean

Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves

The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that prohibited the importation of slaves into the United States. Blockade of Africa and Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves are Atlantic slave trade.

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Alexander Slidell Mackenzie

Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (April 6, 1803 – September 13, 1848), born Alexander Slidell, was a United States Navy officer, famous for his 1842 decision to execute three suspected mutineers aboard a ship under his command in the Somers Mutiny.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Colonization Society

The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn people of color and emancipated slaves to the continent of Africa.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. Blockade of Africa and Atlantic slave trade are history of the Atlantic Ocean, slavery in North America, slavery in South America, slavery in the British Empire and slavery in the Caribbean.

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Barbary pirates

The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, Ottoman corsairs, or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources) were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states.

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Brazil Squadron

The Brazil Squadron, the Brazil Station, or the South Atlantic Squadron was an overseas military station established by the United States in 1826 to protect American commerce in the South Atlantic during a war between Brazil and Argentina.

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Cape Mesurado

Cape Mesurado, also called Cape Montserrado, is a headland on the coast of Liberia near the capital Monrovia and the mouth of the Saint Paul River.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Charles Bullen

Admiral Sir Charles Bullen (10 September 1769 – 2 July 1853) was a highly efficient and successful naval officer who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and distinguished himself at the Glorious First of June, the battle of Camperdown and the battle of Trafalgar.

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Charles William Maxwell

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Maxwell (1775 – 23 September 1848, Broadstairs) was a British soldier and colonial administrator.

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Coastwise slave trade

The coastwise slave trade existed along the southern and eastern coastal areas of the United States in the antebellum years prior to 1861.

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Congo River

The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around.

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Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Economy of the Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (1861–1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe and to the northern US.

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Era of Good Feelings

The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.

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Fowell Buxton

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786Olwyn Mary Blouet, "Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, first baronet (1786–1845)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2010. – 19 February 1845), was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.

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Francisco Félix de Sousa

Francisco Félix de Souza (5 October 1754 – 8 May 1849) was a Brazilian slave trader who was deeply influential in the regional politics of pre-colonial West Africa (namely, current-day Benin, Togo and Nigeria).

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Full Fact

Full Fact is a British charity, based in London, which checks and corrects facts reported in the news as well as claims which circulate on social media.

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice prime minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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Home Squadron

The Home Squadron was part of the United States Navy in the mid-19th century. Blockade of Africa and Home Squadron are Atlantic slave trade.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Indian Ocean slave trade

The Indian Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade, was multi-directional slave trade and has changed over time.

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James Madison

James Madison (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.

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Jean Lafitte

Jean Lafitte (–) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century.

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John Forsyth (politician)

John Forsyth Sr. (October 22, 1780October 21, 1841) was a 19th-century American politician from Georgia.

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.

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Joseph Denman

Vice Admiral Joseph Denman (23 June 1810 – 26 November 1874) was a British naval officer, most noted for his actions against the slave trade as a commander of HMS ''Wanderer'' of the West Africa Squadron.

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Kru people

The Kru, Krao, Kroo, or Krou are a West African ethnic group who are indigenous to western Ivory Coast and eastern Liberia.

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Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.

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Lyons–Seward Treaty of 1862

The Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, also known as the Lyons-Seward Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain in an aggressive measure to end the Atlantic slave trade.

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Mary Faber de Sanger

Mary Faber, also called Mary Faber de Sanger (c. 1798 – after 1857), was an African slave-trader.

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Matthew C. Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was an United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.

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Mixed Commission Court

A Mixed Commission Court was a joint court set up by the British government with Dutch, Spanish or Portuguese representation following treaties agreed in 1817 and 1818. Blockade of Africa and Mixed Commission Court are abolitionism in Africa.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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National Museum of the Royal Navy

The National Museum of the Royal Navy was created in early 2009 to act as a single non-departmental public body for the museums of the Royal Navy.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Niger expedition of 1841

The Niger expedition of 1841 was mounted by British missionary and activist groups in 1841–1842, using three British iron steam vessels to travel to Lokoja, at the confluence of the Niger River and Benue River, in what is now Nigeria.

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Pax Britannica

Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace", modelled after Pax Romana) was the period of relative peace between the great powers.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

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Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his assassination and death on April 15, 1865, days into his second term.

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Red Sea slave trade

The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes known as the Islamic slave trade, Arab slave trade, or Oriental slave trade, was a slave trade across the Red Sea trafficking Africans from the African continent to slavery in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East from antiquity until the mid-20th-century.

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Robert F. Stockton

Robert Field Stockton (August 20, 1795 – October 7, 1866) was a United States Navy commodore, notable in the capture of California during the Mexican–American War.

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Robert Hagan (Royal Navy officer)

Rear Admiral Sir Robert Hagan (3 November 1794 – 25 April 1863) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sir George Collier, 1st Baronet

Sir George Ralph Collier, 1st Baronet, KCB (bapt. 4 June 1772London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812 – 24 March 1824) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812.

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Slave Trade Act 1807

The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire. Blockade of Africa and slave Trade Act 1807 are Atlantic slave trade.

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Slavery in Africa

Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Blockade of Africa and Slavery in Africa are history of West Africa.

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Slavery in Brazil

Slavery in Brazil began long before the first Portuguese settlement. Blockade of Africa and Slavery in Brazil are slavery in South America.

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Slavery in Zanzibar

Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909.

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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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USS Guerriere (1814)

USS Guerriere was the first frigate built in the United States since 1801.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Vice admiralty court

Vice admiralty courts were juryless courts located in British colonies that were granted jurisdiction over local legal matters related to maritime activities, such as disputes between merchants and seamen.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.

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Webster–Ashburton Treaty

The Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a treaty that resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that became Canada).

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West Africa Squadron

The West Africa Squadron, also known as the Preventative Squadron, was a squadron of the British Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. Blockade of Africa and West Africa Squadron are 19th-century history of the Royal Navy, abolitionism in Africa, Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the British Empire.

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West Indies

The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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William "Bull" Nelson

William "Bull" Nelson (September 27, 1824 – September 29, 1862) was a United States naval officer who became a Union general during the American Civil War.

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William Hutt (politician)

Sir William Hutt, KCB, PC (6 October 1801 – 24 November 1882) was a British Liberal politician who was heavily involved in the colonisation of New Zealand and South Australia.

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See also

19th-century history of the Royal Navy

Abolitionism in Africa

Blockades by the United Kingdom

Blockades by the United States

History of West Africa

Slavery in North America

Slavery in South America

Slavery in the British Empire

Slavery in the Caribbean

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Africa

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