article_snippet.sent: It was a key stopping place for the ships of the East India Company and other vessels - at the East India Company
article_snippet.sent: peak the East India Company serviced a thousand a year.
article_snippet.sent: the East India Company played a role in both slavery and the East India Company abolition: when the trade became illegal the East India Company was the base from which the British sought to capture the perpetrators and free the perpetrators human cargo.