The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law that prohibits the importation of slaves into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808, the earliest date p
Manifest of the coastwise slaver brig Porpoise, departing Baltimore for New Orleans in 1841, with all parties attesting that none of the enslaved people aboard had been "imported into the United States since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight"
An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves into Any Port or Place Within the Jurisdiction of the U.S. From and After Jan. 1, 1808 (NAID 7873517)
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The Slave Trade Act 1807, or the Abolition of Slave Trade Act 1807, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the Atlantic slave trade in the British Empire. Although it did not a
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
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William Wilberforce, the leader of the British campaign to abolish the slave trade.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by Josiah Wedgwood, 1787.