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The real motives for the abolition of the slave trade by Great Britain have been either ignored or deliberately misrepresented by British historians who have sacrificed scholarship and integrity to patriotism and the philanthropic complex. We have now to treat an aspect of the British slave trade which has received no recognition from later historians and little from contemporary humanitarians. That aspect is the intereolonial slave trade between 1807 and 1833. The Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade as a means of supplying labor to the British West Indian colonies. In 1811 slave trade was made a felonious offense, with the qualification, whether deliberate or not, that slaves could be transported from one British colony, settlement or island in the West Indies to another. The Law Officers of the Crown in England decided in 1815 that Honduras could not be considered a British colony in the West Indies according to the terms of the 1811 Act.' Whether the Bahamas fell within the terms of the Act or not was not clear,2 but in 1833 it was laid down that slaves returning to the West Indies from Britain or from a British colony where slavery did not exist, did not fall in the category of illegal importa-

The British West Indian Slave Trade After Its Abolition in 1807