Bunnahabhain - 22 Jun 06 - 09:56 AM

"Britian ended the slave trade in British ships and colonies in 1830, and the Royal Navy kept up anti-slavery patrols off African coasts until at least the First World War. We need a similar effort now, for the good of the people involved, and the country."

I believe that Bunnahabhain referred to such actions in another thread about Dreadnoughts. Where it was cited that British Gunboat Diplomacy was worse than that of the United States as the Royal hove into sight bombarded a country overwhelmed it in half and hour added it to the Empire and then charged the local rulers for the shells expended. the incident Bunnahabain was refering to I believe was the destruction of Zanzibar as the main slave trading post on the East Coast of Africa, whose ruler after repeated warnings continued to allow the slave trade to flourish. Rather unfortunate as the populations the Slavers were plundering happened to fall under the protection of that evil British Empire. Not so many did after Zanzibar was taken out of the equation.