[MarkL]

Because there were buyers in North and South America.

There were slave buyers all over the world. England outlawed the slave trade in 1807 in England and throughout the colonies, but slavery wasn't outlawed until 1833. Most European countries outlawed slavery in the early to mid 1800s.

In Africa and some Arab and Muslim countries, the slave trade continues to this day.

Mark

[Bull Snipe]

we waited until the mid 1860s to outlaw slavery.