” France and Britain were in no mood to give up any of their colonies.”
But they never stop talking about slavery in America.
The English introduced slavery into their American colonies. One of Thomas Jefferson’s charges against King George III (removed from the Declaration of Independence by Congress) was his refusal to allow the abolition of the slave trade (bringing new slaves to the 13 colonies). Both Britain and France had slave colonies in the West Indies. Britain finally abolished slavery in the 1830s, France not until 1848. Slavery continued in Cuba and Brazil even after it was abolished in the US. Some Southerners went to Brazil after 1865 but they were too poor to become slaveholding plantation owners there.