African Slave Trade Patrol

African Slave Trade Patrol
	Part of the suppression of the Slave Trade
	; USS Perry confronting the slaver Martha off Ambiz in 1850
Date	1819–1861
Location	Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea
Result	In 42 years about 100 suspected slave ships were captured
Belligerents
United States	African slave traders
Commanders and leaders
Matthew C. Perry; George W. Storer; William Compton Bolton; George H. Perkins; Andrew Hull Foote; Thomas Crabbe; Daniel Dobbins;	Jozé Antonio de la Vega; Francis Bowen;

The United States' African Slave Trade Patrol was part of the Blockade of Africa suppressing the Atlantic slave trade between 1819 and the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861. Due to the abolitionist movement in the United States, a squadron of U.S. Navy warships and cutters were assigned to catch slave traders in and around Africa. In 42 years about 100 suspected slave ships were captured.