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

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.