I wonder if they also ended it make higher profit margins. The British had control of the ships and slave trade, that were started by the King handing out certificates of incorporation and funding the capital costs of shipbuilding and supplies for the trade through stock sales to British aristocrat investors who often leveraged their “country estates” as investment collateral. With The slave trade ending the cost of buying and producing slaves would have dropped, mostly like increasing the profit margins for the slave “producers,” since buyers would be conditioned to the costs added on by the British traders (i.e., capital costs for ships and supply, quarterly dividend payments to the stockholders in Britain, taxes and tariffs on the “landed” costs of the goods, and well as additional layers of middle men. The price condition of the buyers could be partially reduced as the profit margin might have grown significantly thanks to lower cost of production and elimination of several cost layers.

At any rate, was still horrific and morally reprehensible, a tale full of violence and human degradation that went against the ideals of democracy that boy helped to condition the whites with autocratic repressive instincts anathema to the values of inalienable rights and equality, deepening their resistance to change.

Thanks much again for your reflections on continued research.