How did Britain’s Royal Navy go about abolishing the slave trade in Africa?

A great deal is made of the fact that William Wilberforce fought to abolish slavery in the British Empire, just as in the United States, Abraham Lincoln is famous for freeing slaves. The true feelings of both men though will be shocking to modern sensitivities. Lincoln, Abraham (1953) Collected works. The Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois. Roy P. Basler, editor; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd A. Dunlap, assistant editors, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. Tomkins, Stephen (2010) The Clapham Sect, London: Lion Hudson.