When Anne Honiss was christened on 24 July 1780, in Rye, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Honess, was 37 and her mother, Mary Apps, was 64. She died in 1872, in Rye, Sussex, England, at the age of 92.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
English: variant of Hone ; see also Hones .
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