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“H.M. schooner Bright,”
― Mike Rogers, Capture of a Slaver

“We had been ordered to the Gulf of Guinea to watch the mouth of the great Niger River. Our”
― Mike Rogers, Capture of a Slaver

“Probably cut off his balls and force him to eat them.” I stated as a mere fact.”
― Mike Rogers, The Spartan

“trade in which these vessels were engaged; even when empty the stink of a slaver ship is unmistakable. Used only once for the transportation of three hundred human souls, left to rot and die in their own filth and misery, you could scrub her boards from head to toe in lye and she would still give herself away with her cloying smell. But instead of arresting her on this evidence, we had to overtake them at the exact moment that their holds were full of captured humanity, bound for a life of servitude and misery. Once the crafts had reached the open sea we stood little chance, as their superior speed and manoeuvrability would easily outpace us. Our only opportunity lay in a stealth attack from the coast.”
― Mike Rogers, Capture of a Slaver