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Slavery in Britain
Slavery in Britain existed even before the Roman period from AD 43 to AD 410, and the practice endured in various forms in the English overseas possessions and much of the British Empire until the 19th century. English merchants, especially from the ports of Liverpool, London, and Bristol, controlled a significant part of the Transatlantic slave trade, until the Slave Trade Act 1807 prohibited the Atlantic slave trade in the British Empire. After the act was passed, Britain interdicted the international transatlantic slave trade both diplomatically and with the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, established in 1808. After the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the Royal Navy had the ships available to back up diplomatic efforts to end slavery, by both increasing resources for the West Africa Squadron from 1818 and, when diplomatic pressure on the Barbary corsairs proved insufficient, by bombarding Algiers in 1816 in a ferocious engagement. In England the Norman Conquest resulted in...
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