USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -President Thomas Jefferson, who had promoted the legislation, promptly signed the act, making it law. The act went into effect on January 1, 1808, prohibiting from that time on the importation of African slaves to the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was not until 1867, after widespread abolitionist pressure within the Spanish empire-and in light of emancipation in Cuba’s much larger neighbor, the United States, after a violent civil war-that the Spanish government moved decisively against the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade, ending the traffic for good.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1807, the British government passed an Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Slavery itself would persist in the British colonies until its final abolition in 1838. However, abolitionists would continue campaigning against the international trade of slaves after this date.

Detailed explanation-4: -Three years later, on 25 March 1807, King George III signed into law the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, banning trading in enslaved people in the British Empire. Today, 23 August is known as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.