USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -An act to prohibit the importation of slaves During the Revolutionary War, the United Colonies all pledged to ban their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

Detailed explanation-3: -But first, 200 years ago on January 1st, 1808, the U.S. officially banned the importation of slaves.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800, 000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada.