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Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) Liverpool/England
English flag officer in the Royal Navy and one of Britain’s most celebrated naval commanders.
WHO ALSO publicly opposed the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and defended the interests of West Indian plantation owners. In private correspondence he praised the planter class and criticised abolitionists, arguing that ending the slave trade would damage Britain’s imperial and economic interests.
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