“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....
My point was that the British Navy was indeed prosecuting slave traders on one hand and impressing sailors on the other for a period of time.
You are correct...they were not doing it by the 1860’s...at least not to American sailors...