jan 1, 1841 - James Hayllar, Granville Sharp the Abolitionist Rescuing a Slave from the Hands of His Master, 1864

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The ‘Acorn’ brig was one of the British West Africa Squadron, established in 1808 in order to enforce the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, following the British Act of Abolition the previous year. In early July 1841 ‘Acorn’ spotted the ‘Gabriel’, an Iberian pirate vessel, gaining on the British barque ‘India’, which was carrying migrants to Australia. A contemporary report in the ‘Journal du Havre’ described the capture of the ‘Gabriel’, as communicated by one Captain Blay of the ‘Jeune Pauline’, who had just arrived at Le Havre from Rio de Janeiro: ‘The English brig Acorn having, in lat. 5.N perceived at great distance a vessel pillaging another, made chase, and instantly the ‘Gabriel’ hoisted all her sail, and endeavoured to escape.

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