| PORTONOVO | National capital of Benin, and former port for the slave trade (5,4) |
| NUEVACADIZ | Archaeological site and former port town on Cubagua, off the coast of Venezuela, that was one of the first settlements in the Americas |
| FON | Language of Benin and Togo |
| EMANCIPATION | I'm one captain at sea - some hope for the slaves! |
| ABOLITION | In British territories, the ending of the slave trade or slavery itself (9) |
| NOAHSDOVE | The Ancient Mariner's port, for the most part, offered an olive branch to survivor of the flood (4'1,4) |
| TRONDHEIM | National capital of Norway during the Viking period, formerly called Nidaros (9) |
| STEAMSHIP | Direction taken by meandering Thames to one port for The Queen Mary, for example? (9) |
| ZEEBRUGGE | Port for the city of Bruges in Belgium (9) |
| LEXBARKER | Actor who played the male lead in action films Tarzan and the She-Devil and Tarzan and the Slave Girl |
| SCRABSTER | Ferry port for the Orkneys, two miles from Thurso (9) |
| WILLIAM | M.P., leader of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade (7,11) |
| WILBERFORCE | M.P., leader of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade (7,11) |
| MELBOURNE | A port for the PM |
| ANCHORAGE | Port for the recluse's cell? |
| DAVIDHUME | Scottish philosopher, whose A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions' (5,4) |
| NEVERFALL | US drama miniseries starring Annette Benin and Sam Neill (6,5,4) |
| SESSEGNON | Stephane ___, Benin and Montpellier attacker at West Bromwich Albion from 2013-16 (9) |
| SC | Northernmost of the two Lowcountry states, known for its rice, indigo and the slave trade that supported it (abbr.) |
| SPARTACUS | The most notable leader of the slaves in the Third Servile War, a major uprising against the Roman Republic (9) |
