African Slave Trade Patrol | |||||||
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Part of the suppression of the Slave Trade | |||||||
![]() USS Perry confronting the slaver Martha off Ambiz in 1850. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() | African slave traders | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Jozé Antonio de la Vega Francis Bowen |
African Slave Trade Patrol was part of the Blockade of Africa suppressing the Atlantic slave trade between 1819 and the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861. Due to the abolitionist movement in the United States, a squadron of U.S. Navy warships and cutters were assigned to catch slave traders in and around Africa. In 42 years about 100 suspected slave ships were captured.[1][2]