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The Royal Navy's Campaign Against Slavery - Prof. Andrew Lambert

Professor Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He has taught at the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the University of the West of England. His work focuses on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and the early development of naval historical writing. His work has addressed a range of issues, including technology, policy-making, regional security, deterrence, historiography, crisis-management and conflict. He received the 2014 Anderson Medal for The Challenge: Britain against America in the Naval War of 1812. His last two books are Seapower States, Yale 2018: Winner of the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Book Prize in Military History and The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy, Yale 2021. 00:00 - Introduction 01:49 - Lecture 41:35 - Who was Captain Denman? 44:16 - How risky was it? 46:31 - How do you capture a ship? 48:12 - Slaving in Brazil and South America 49:36 - Alternative markets 53:48 - Alternative income for slavers 53:32 - Deaths on route 58:21 - The Indian slave trade 1:00:21 - Was British policy cynical? 1:04:41 - How much did this cost? 1:06:40 - Why did slavers threaten to kill slaves? 1:09:10 - When was the last Royal Navy anti-slaving mission? 1:12:21 - Concluding remarks About History Reclaimed Our Mission The abuse of history for political purposes is as old as history itself. In recent years, we have seen campaigns to rewrite the history of several democratic nations in a way that undermines their solidarity as communities, their sense of achievement, even their very legitimacy. These ‘culture wars’, pursued in the media, in public spaces, in museums, universities, schools, civil services, local government, business corporations and even churches, are particularly virulent in North America, Australasia and the United Kingdom. Activists assert that ‘facing up’ to a past presented as overwhelmingly and permanently shameful and guilt-laden is the way to a better and fairer future. We see no evidence that this is true. On the contrary, tendentious and even blatantly false readings of history are creating or aggravating divisions, resentments, and even violence. We do not take the view that our histories are uniformly praiseworthy—that would be absurd. But we reject as equally absurd the claim that they are essentially shameful. We agree that history consists of many opinions and many voices. But this does not mean that all opinions are valid, and certainly none should be imposed as a new orthodoxy. We intend to challenge distortions of history, and to provide context, explanation and balance in a debate in which dogmatism is too often preferred to analysis, and condemnation to understanding. Who We Are We are an independent group of scholars with a wide range of opinions on many subjects, but with the shared conviction that history requires careful interpretation of complex evidence, and should not be a vehicle for facile propaganda. We have established the History Reclaimed group as a non-profit making company limited by guarantee; the directors and co-editors are unpaid. Visit our website - https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/ Donate to the channel - https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/make-a...