plot of his 1994 novel The Commodore, the seventeenth installment in his Aubrey–Maturin series, on his Royal Navy captain, Jack Aubrey, being given command of a squadron to suppress the slave trade off the coast of West Africa near the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Though the squadron is never explicitly named the "West Africa Squadron," it fulfills the known roles of the Squadron as it existed at the time, and makes reference to the Slave Trade Act of 1807. William Joseph Cosens Lancaster, writing as Harry Collingwood, wrote four novels about the same squadron: (1885) (1895) (1909) (1911) See also Abolition of slavery timeline § 1800–1849 African Slave Trade Patrol (United States Navy) Black and British: A Forgotten History#3: Moral Mission, a TV series covering the Squadron Blockade of Africa :Category:Ships of the West Africa Squadron Mary Faber (slave trader) Freetown, Sierra Leone, a town established for the settlement of freed slaves References Further reading * Access from UK with TV licence. Chasing Freedom: The Royal Navy and the Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade The West African Squadron and slave trade BBC News - "10 things about British slavery" Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery. (London: Macmillan, 2005), Lloyd, Christopher. The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century. (Cass library of African studies, no. 4. London: Cass, 1968), OCLC: 177145 Naval Review book review of "BRITAIN’S WAR AGAINST THE SLAVE TRADE: THE OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVY’S WEST AFRICA SQUADRON 1807-1867" Military units and formations established in 1808 African slave trade 19th century in the United Kingdom Royal Navy squadrons British West Africa 19th-century history of the Royal Navy Slavery in the British Empire Anti-slavery military operations