SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Europe and South America
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Europe and North America
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Europe and Africa
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Europe and Asia
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Detailed explanation-1: -An act banning the importation of slaves into the United States was passed by Congress in 1808 (though it did not ban slavery itself). By the 1820s other countries such as Spain, Holland, Sweden, and France had also passed laws against the slave trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -An act of Congress passed in 1800 made it illegal for Americans to engage in the slave trade between nations, and gave U.S. authorities the right to seize slave ships which were caught transporting slaves and confiscate their cargo. Then the “Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves” took effect in 1808.
Detailed explanation-3: -1807: The Act to Abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade is passed in Parliament. 1833: Slavery Abolition Act is passed in Parliament, taking effect in 1834.
Detailed explanation-4: -On the first day of January, 1808, a new Federal law made it illegal to import captive people from Africa into the United States. This date marks the end-the permanent, legal closure-of the trans-Atlantic slave trade into our country.