Archive: Month: <span>May 2026</span>

British Sailors Stranded, Marooned, and Absorbed on the West African Coast, 1750–1860: A Research Report

The history of British seamen who ended up stranded, shipwrecked, abandoned, or marooned on the West African coast during the era of the slave trade and the Royal Navy’s anti-slavery patrols is fragmentary, but a small body of named first-hand accounts and scholarly reconstructions does exist. The following report assembles the most concrete documented cases … Read more