spain, portugal, france, the netherlandss, other countries were still going to pick up the slack. they were going to begin to pick up the slaves from africa and transporting them to the new world. so it quickly became apparent that in order to eradicate this practice there would have to be international cooperation, and so abolitionists put pressure on government, and the british government was receptive to the pressure, and they again lobbying other governments to enter into treaties that would prohibit the slave trade and at first those treaties, like many treaties, were what we might call in international relations cheap talk. that is, they said slavery is wrong, we want to ban the slave trade, but they included no enforcement mechanisms. but pretty quickly the tide turned and they said this isn't going to be enough. so the british government began pushing for enforcement measures, and they actually created treat idea starting in 1817, that not only banned the slave trade, but created international courts to enforce the ban. more than a century before the nuremberg tribunals. w