Slavery - Important Edition of the National Intelligencer issued in Washington on November 30th 1819, with two considerable articles discussing the situation in the slave trade at that time. The first - filling almost a page - tries to make out that America were addressing the abolition of the slave trade faster than Great Britain had actually achieved it - while the second article, almost half a page, points out the success of the growing colony of emancipated slaves established by Britain in Sierra Leone. An important contemporaneous document in the history of slavery abolition. Britain at this time had been successful in now only abolishing slavery throughout Britain and its colonies but also in its negotiations with other nations, notably Spain in encouraging similar abolition. In America, while certain northern states were working on similar programmes of abolition, as a nation slavery was still in practice until the end of the Civil War in the 1860s. It is worth noting that while the first article suggests that America was not too far behind Britain in abolition, elsewhere in this edition there are several articles discussing the fate of runaway slaves