The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century campaign.

Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Beckett University
Richard Huzzey is Reader in History at Durham University

Introduction
1 Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore - Robert Burroughs
2 The politics of slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey
3 'Tis enough that we give them liberty'? Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave-trade suppression - Emma Christopher
4 A 'most miserable business': naval officers' experiences of slave-trade suppression - Mary Wills
5 British and African health in the anti-slave-trade squadron - John Rankin
6 Slave-trade suppression and the culture of anti-slavery in nineteenth-century Britain - Robert Burroughs
7 Slave-trade suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth-century Britain - David Lambert
8 History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey and John McAleer
Index