At a conference in Portsmouth next week, Christer Petley will discuss connections between the Royal Navy and slavery in the Caribbean, focusing on the relationship between Horatio Nelson and Simon Taylor. See this part of the S&R site to view the letter that Nelson sent to Taylor and which William Cobbett posted in his Political Register in February 1807, as part of a last ditch effort to stall the Abolition Bill as it passed through parliament.
| Successful Conference!British Slave Emancipation in France Antilles
Royal Navy and the Caribbean
12/06/2014
| Successful Conference!British Slave Emancipation in France Antilles