Talk:HMS Esperance (1795)

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Did you know... that the official proclamation of the abolition of slavery by the French government in 1794 was delivered to the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) by the corvette Esperance?

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Hi, could you make the font in this section larger? It's really hard to read the way it is. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 22:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Yoninah, The main references are OK now. The citations are still small, but I believe that is the default on those and I don't know enough to change that. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 00:08, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]