I do not understand. I thought slavery ended here and St Armand, in 1834. "In l830, in the face of American protests, British authorities in the Bahamas declared that slaves from the wrecked schooner Comet were free. Parliament finally ordered the abolition of slavery in the British colonies to take effect by August l, l834, three days after the death of Wilberforce. The Empire was at last freed from its terrible curse." Read more at Suite101: The British Empire - free Suite101 course http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/18253/1495/4#ixzz0d3x5ymeK John Anderton