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They were transporting slaves to Jamaica in the 1840s. They were transporting slaves to the USA long after that country banned the trade. As the wiki article about the trans-Atlantic slave trade says:
The major Atlantic slave-trading nations, ordered by trade volume, were the Portuguese, the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, and the Danish. Several had established outposts on the African coast where they purchased slaves from local African leaders.
Note who is second, after the Portuguese but before the Spanish. 96.240.128.124 (talk) 11:20, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Great Britain was indeed one of the biggest slave-trading nations, but they had abolished the slave trade with the Slave Trade Act 1807. Slavery throughout the Empire was banned with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (with a handful of exceptions), so any transportation of slaves to Jamaica after that time was being done so illegally. —howcheng {chat}17:13, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
