Light does get absorbed, that's why we see black. If nothing reflects, all of the colors in the light gets absorbed into whatever it is hitting and we see black, the absence of light. Even if we see color, the colors that we dont see are being absorbed. When we do see color, it is because that color light gets reflected off of the object.
Denmark-Norway becomes the first country in Europe to ban the African slave trade, forbidding trading in slaves and ending the importation of slaves into Danish dominions. I think
People in Great Britain, especially those in Parliament, viewed the colonists with a certain amount of disdain, since the colonists did not have representation in Parliament and were considered "foreign".
