| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Donald L. Canney. Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1843–1861. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books. 2006. Pp. xiv, 277. $27.50.

The U.S. Navy's attempts to suppress the transatlantic slave trade is an important subject, despite the fact that the American effort was generally a failure, except in capturing a few slaving ships and releasing their captives. Naval historian Donald L. Canney has attempted to study this American initiative, drawing on his considerable expertise. The result is a book that tells us a lot about American ships, where they went, the hardships that were suffered by their crews, and even more about their white captains and the generally frustrated legal efforts to convict slavers. Canney also provides a chronological account of the ebbs and flows of U.S. policy with respect to the slave trade, especially in the crucial two decades before the Civil War. Unfortunately, the positive merits of the study in relation to technical details and policy issues in the United States are limited, while the negative dimensions of Canney's study raise serious questions.

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