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==History==
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{{newreview
|author=Sian Rees
|title=Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=The Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was passed in Britain in March 1807, and the last legal British slave ship left Africa seven months later. Other countries were slow to follow suit. Everyone in Britain knew there would be resistance, and when the abolitionist Granville Sharpe purchased land in Sierra Leone to 'repatriate' freed slaves, Ottobah Cugoana, a former slave living in London, asked if it was possible for 'a fountain to send forth both sweet water and bitter.' Could the slave trade, he wondered, be abolished from West Africa - when West Africa was its source?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951174</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=John Grimson
