British legislation forbids ships under British registry…

1828 CE to 1839 CE

British legislation forbids ships under British registry to engage in the slave trade, but the restriction is applied generally to all flags and is intended to shut down all traffic in slaves coming out of West African ports.

Other countries more or less hesitantly follow the British lead.

The United States, for example, had also prohibited the slave trade in 1807 (Denmark actually was the first country to declare the trade illegal in 1792).

Attitudes change slowly, however, and not all countries cooperate in controlling the activity of their merchant ships.

American ships, for instance, are notorious for evading the prohibition and going unpunished under United States law.

It should be noted, moreover, that the abolition movement had concentrated on the transatlantic trade for more than five decades before eventually turning to a full-fledged attack on slave trading within Africa itself

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