high seas to prevent them from slave trading because brittany and no longer had any slave colonies. france had lost its colonies and america was not isolated because they were huge slave plantations and complexes and in jamaica and brazil which totally dwarfed what was going on here. new orleans was on the periphery of the slavery -- the second question was about the fascinating question of freed blacks in new orleans who occupied obviously a privileged position in society and the question of whether they would have sided with the whites or with the slaves. ..