Slaves freed by British or American Navy ships

[MarAzul]

in the first half of the 19th century were sent to Liberia after being intercepted on the high seas.

They could have been take to the country they came from instead.

Was this just decision or another injustice compounding their trouble?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia

 

[BlazerWookee]

in the first half of the 19th century were sent to Liberia after being intercepted on the high seas.

They could have been take to the country they came from instead.

Was this just decision or another injustice compounding their trouble?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia

I can understand the thinking behind not wanting to directly repatriate someone who was just sold into slavery by someone in their home country...

 

[MarAzul]

I can understand the thinking behind not wanting to directly repatriate someone who was just sold into slavery by someone in their home country...

I think that was exactly the problem Wook, they had just been sold in the country they came from.

I have an old diary of one of my grand-fathers, written during the time he served as a First Lieutenant aboard a British Frigate in the 1840s. Some of it is not readable but some is. They were not
often able to catch a ship and free the slaves, more often than not the slave ship would dump the contents of the ship, slaves and all to lighten the ship and then out run the Frigate. It appears
to be pretty crappy duty in my mind. It reminded me of my days on Formosa Patrol. We would often pick up survivors at sea, taking the Taiwanese to Taiwan and the Chinese to Hong Kong irregardless of where
they came from. But then the Chinese would shoot at us if we came close enough anywhere except Hong Kong. I often wondered how many of those people just stayed in Hong Kong rather than go home?
Going home seems sort of out of the question if you had just been sold there.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Interesting stuff, Mar Azul. You are lucky to have the Diary. While it was not uncommon to read and write, some far more elegant than those "educated" today, personal papers are not common survivors from that period.

 

[jlprk]

I have an old diary of one of my grand-fathers, written during the time he served as a First Lieutenant aboard a British Frigate in the 1840s. Some of it is not readable but some is.

Oh yeah, that was him? We got along. He was just like you.