Naval power behind British anti-slave-trade enforcement

What reading explains the military, political, and diplomatic consequences of Britain's campaign against the Atlantic slave trade?

Foreign-relations histories are useful because British patrols depended on diplomacy, territorial authority, and the deterrent threat of the Royal Navy.

Foreign-relations studies centered on Palmerston and other ministers provide a route into the military, political, and diplomatic consequences of British action against the slave trade. British patrols operated within a coercive setting. London asserted authority in territories it controlled and could warn opponents that interference meant confronting the world's largest navy. Most governments chose not to fight, showing how patrol work, diplomacy, and overwhelming maritime power reinforced one another.