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“The stories of British slave rescues we never hear about...” featured in @DavidOlusoga ‘s BBC documentary Black and British (both episodes two and three) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-history-lesson-that-floats-my-boat-the-stories-of-british-slave-rescues-we-never-hear-about-3qldf88jk
They feature prominently in books published by @BronwenEverill @mbarcia24 @pxscanlan @RichardHuzzey and in articles by @maevecsryan @Jake_S_Richards and @jeanm24152086
You can read more about them in this edited collection with a wide variety of authors
I was awarded a BA/ Wolfson fellowship to research children rescued from slave ships by the West Africa Squadron. I’ve given public talks on the topic in Canterbury, Geneva, Glasgow and Edinburgh so far. https://www.kent.ac.uk/events/event/41934/recapturing-childhoods-the-lives-of-children-liberated-from-the-slave-trade-in-the-19th-century
The author of another excellent book on the abolition of the slave trade, Richard Anderson, talks about the west Africa Squadron in week four of this freely-available online course. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/slavery-in-the-british-caribbean
The African Names database lists most of the names of men women and children taken from slave ships https://www.slavevoyages.org/resources/about#african-names-database/0/en/
More information from the National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/#7-records-of-ex-slaves-and-liberated-africans
It's estimated that about a third of the crew of anti-slave trade ships were Kru (Africans) from modern-day Liberia. Here's a 'sailor's testimonial' made for Ben Freeman, a Kru mariner in recognition of his service -- https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/254399.html
There was an exhibition at the Royal Navy Museum https://archives.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/exhibitions/museums/chasing.html
And an excellent one about the descendants of the Liberated Africans @MuseumofLondon curated by @HistorianMel https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london-docklands/whats-on/exhibitions/krios-sierra-leone
You can access the archive documents from the Sierra Leone National Archives here: https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP443-1-17
I talk about the rescue of children in this radio show https://www.historyscotland.com/history/new-series-of-time-travels-on-bbc-sounds-covers-centuries-of-scottish-/
This is the kind of research the British government wants to shut down. My own research project will involve working with school pupils in Freetown and Cape Town, places where Liberated Africans were settled, inspired by @youthledhistory
