HMS Dolphin’s capture of the slaver Firme, 1841
HMS Dolphin and the capture of the slaver Firme, 1841 Early 19th Century Slaver In 1807 Britain was the first nation to outlaw the slave trade, one which had existed for millennia (and that, to a certain extent, still does). Active measures to suppress the evil had to wait until the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when other [...]