If I am not mistaken, the British place of honor in ending slavery was due in large part to their willingness to use their powerful navy to enforce it, anywhere they encountered it in the world.
Of course, on the other hand, they enslaved sailors of other countries that they impressed on the high seas.
Oh well...nobody is perfect...:)
“If I am not mistaken, the British place of honor in ending slavery was due in large part to their willingness to use their powerful navy to enforce it, anywhere they encountered it in the world.”
That and they provided both compensation to the former owners and something for the former slaves to start out with. More moral and practical than the “root hog, or die” approach of the North that resulted in so many having to go back to the plantations they’d been “freed” from.
“Of course, on the other hand, they enslaved sailors of other countries that they impressed on the high seas.”
Well, they’d stopped that by the 1830s....