Editing Saint Helena (section)

===British East India Company (1821–1834)===
Following Napoleon's death, the soldiers and other temporary residents linked to his presence on the island were withdrawn and the EIC resumed full control of Saint Helena. Between 1815 and 1830, the EIC made available to the government of the island the [[packet boat|packet]] [[schooner]] {{ship||St Helena|1814 ship|2}}, which made multiple trips per year between the island and the Cape, carrying passengers both ways and supplies of wine and provisions back to the island. Napoleon praised Saint Helena's coffee during his exile on the island, and the product enjoyed a brief popularity in [[Paris]] in the years after his death.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The importation of slaves to Saint Helena was banned in 1792. In 1818, the governor freed children born of slaves on the island.<ref name="smithsonianmag.com" /> The phased emancipation of over 800 resident slaves took place in 1827, some six years before the British parliament passed legislation to abolish slavery in the colonies.<ref name="smithsonianmag.com" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://sthelena.uk.net |title=Friends of St Helena |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506123722/http://sthelena.uk.net/ |archive-date=6 May 2013 |quote=the island became a temporary refuge for more than 26,000 Africans liberated by the Royal Navy from slave ships.}}{{unreliable source?|date=September 2021}}</ref>

Between 1791 and 1833, Saint Helena became the site of a series of experiments in conservation, reforestation, and attempts to boost rainfall artificially.<ref name="Grove">[[Richard Grove]], ''Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 309–379</ref> This environmental intervention was closely linked to the conceptualisation of the processes of environmental change and helped establish the roots of environmentalism.<ref name="Grove"/>