The Abolition of The Slave Trade

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Burning of a Barracoon

Burning barracoons was one the measures used to impede the slave trade, like here in Mozambique, where the British burned a slave pen located at Keonga. But barracoons shifted from offshore islands to secluded estuaries and inlets that were within the jurisdiction of African states.