Just to be clear, the British abolished the slave trade, and made it stick. If it wasn't for the Quakers, William Wilbeforce, and the British Navy there would probably still be an international slave trade (as opposed to the continuining slave trade in places like the Sudan). The fact that they were major partners in it beforehand, along with the Arabs, the Portuguese, the Dutch and almost everyone else, including indigenous Africans, should not keep the fact that they stopped the trade from their record, which had many, many miseries on it as well. (I am not a Brit., but fair is fair). Their record on East Timor is miserable, he said, returning to the main topic.
yours, Peter T.