You can read it yourself:
A quick question: was the selling of slaves between different British colonies with the 1807 Act? I know the "international" trade was banned, but wasn't sure if this applied to e.g. between Jamaica and the Bahamas. It occurred to me such a distinction would have major implications for a British America and settlement of the Deep South.
You can read it yourself:
http://www.pdavis.nl/Legis_06.htm
Note the emphasis on "
African" throughout.
Article III is is phrased to apparently prohibit slave trading from
outside of the Empire, but not from
within the Empire, as as follows:
III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said First Day of May, One thousand eight hundred and seven, it shall be unlawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or persons, resident in this United Kingdom, or in any of the Colonies, Territories, or Dominions thereunto belonging or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, to carry away or remove, or knowingly and willfully to procure, aid, or assist in the carrying away or removing, as Slaves, or for the purpose of being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, any of the Subjects or Inhabitants of Africa, or any Island, Country, Territory, or Place in the West Indies, or any part of America whatsoever, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of his Majesty, either immediately or by Transshipment at Sea or otherwise, directly or indirectly from Africa or from any such Island, Country, territory, or Place as aforesaid, to any other Island, Country, Territory, or Place whatever,
Given that slavery remained legal in the BWI until 1833 (and even longer in India and other parts of the Empire), the reality is presumably anyone who wanted to move their "property" from Jamaica to Trinidad, for example, could have done so, and it would have been an attempt at precedent setting to dispute it.
Presumably there are studies of the inter-colonial movement of the enslaved in the BWI between 1807 and 1833; there are of almost every aspect of the slave trade and slavery.
I'd look here:
http://iibp.chadwyck.com/infopage/publ/jch.htm
Even in 1833, when Parliament passed the act to abolish slavery in the British West Indies, Canada and the Cape of Good Hope (southern Africa), meaning that it was now illegal to buy or own a person, "apprenticeships" kept the "free" in bondage for at least four years, and six years for field hands. However, slavery continued in other areas of the British Empire including the territories run by the East India Company, Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) and St Helena until the 1840s.
Illicit slaving, through indentured servitude (which lasted until 1920) or outright slaving like "blackbirding" in Australia and the Pacific continued well into the Twentieth Century, and various parts of the Empire - especially in Africa and Southwest Asia - remained slave states until independence.
Best,