The Peace of Amiens restores slave colonies to prewar status except for Trinidad, San Domingo, and Louisiana. Joanna Baillie , Vol. Sugar prices begin to rise again. May Ralph Waldo Emerson born. Lords tables the bill on grounds of late reception.
Abolitionists resolve to revive activity, but without mass petitioning.
Surinam is recaptured by the British. Sugar prices good. The new Grenville-Fox ministry supplanting Pitt's aids the abolition . Sugar prices fall. Prime Minister May-June Parliament passes a foreign abolition bill in May and a general abolition resolution in June.