Surprisingly, It Appears That by the End of the 18^th

question 40

Multiple Choice

Surprisingly, it appears that by the end of the 18^th century, the British had

• A)decided to do away with slavery in the British Isles.
• B)decided to put most of its colonizing efforts into the Indian subcontinent.
• C)developed a conscience about slavery.
• D)been convinced by the French that they should get out of the slave business.
• E)already stopped the slave trade, Parliament having passed a law against it in the same year that the United States ended the Civil War.