 It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…
In 1807, under internal and external pressures, the United Kingdom made illegal the international trade in slaves.The Royal Navy was deployed to prevent slavers from the United States, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, West Africa and Arabia.The King of Bonny (now in Nigeria) allegedly became dissatisfied of the British intervention in stopping slave trading.