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Jake Richards, historian: ‘Emancipation created new forms of inequality and injustice, and we need to learn how to resolve these harms’ Ana Puentes
The year 1807, when the British Parliament outlawed the slave trade within the Empire, was not the end of the transatlantic slave trade or the exploitation of some 12.5 million Africans. Rather, it marked the beginning of another little-known chapter in the hell of forced labor and the legal maneuvers endured by the more than 200,000 people rescued — according to the most conservative estimates — by the Royal Navy or other naval patrols between 1807 and 1880 before finally gaining their freedom.
21 April 2026 at 14:54

Jake Richards, historian: ‘Emancipation created new forms of inequality and injustice, and we need to learn how to resolve these harms’

21 April 2026 at 14:54

The year 1807, when the British Parliament outlawed the slave trade within the Empire, was not the end of the transatlantic slave trade or the exploitation of some 12.5 million Africans. Rather, it marked the beginning of another little-known chapter in the hell of forced labor and the legal maneuvers endured by the more than 200,000 people rescued — according to the most conservative estimates — by the Royal Navy or other naval patrols between 1807 and 1880 before finally gaining their freedom.

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The historian Jake Richards at the headquarters of the Center de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), on April 13.