British Sailer freeing SLAVES in AFRICA 100 years after the British abolished Slavery.

A British blacksmith removing the leg irons from the ankle of a slave off the coast of Oman in 1907. The slave and others escaped in a canoe from a slave-trading village on the coast on hearing that a Royal Navy ship was in the area.

The Royal Navy, which then controlled the world’s seas, established the West Africa Squadron in 1808 to patrol the coast of West Africa, and between 1808 and 1860 they seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard