SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Between 1501 and 1867, nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped, forced onto European and American ships, and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved, abused, and forever separated from their homes, families, and cultures.
Detailed explanation-3: -DC Abolishes the Slave Trade. The United States Congress abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia on September 20, 1850, as part of the legislative package called the Compromise of 1850. Since the founding of the District of Columbia in 1800, enslaved people had lived and worked in the nation’s capital.