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congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa in 1808

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During the post-Revolutionary period did states continued the importation of slaves?

Congress did not ban the slave trade in America until 1808. It is stated in the Constitution that this was the first year that Congress would be allowed to ban the trade.


Congress could not prohibit the importation of persons before what year?

1808


Who could not touch slave trade until 1808?

The United States Congress could not touch the slave trade until 1808, as stated in the U.S. Constitution's Slave Trade Clause. This clause prohibited Congress from banning the importation of slaves until that year.


What part of Africa and year did the slaves come from?

They came West Africa .


What year did slaves first arrive in the new world from Africa?

The first African slaves arrived in Hispaniola in 1501.


Why were the slaves traded from Africa?

Africa mainly traded with Europe in exchange for machinery, Africa were trading 80,000 slaves per year. Also more and more countries trading with Europe and then they would raid other countries for slaves. Slavery played a big part in Africa because Africa wanted more guns and machinery.


What year was the first slaves transported from Africa?

the exertly year of slaves to be transported from Afica: it should be refers to those people who were taken to portugal to learn theology in order to be civillized in 1441.where these people apart from laerning were performing different activies and Africa seems to be strong ones.due to strogest of Africans, africans continued in performing activities no any who back to Africa hence slaves started


What parts of the world did Africa have trading connections with in the year 1500?

it was America and Portugal. Portugal went to Africa traded for slaves and brough them to americe


What year were slaves first brought to North America from Africa?

By the late 1500s, the introduction of African slaves was absorbed to north America. (Scientific American)


What happened in 1807?

Well, a lot of things happen in the course of a year. Among other things in 1907 there was a peasants' revolt in Romania, taxicab meters were invented, my father was born, the SS Columbia sank, the RMS Mauritania first sailed, and an explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania killed over 200 miners.


What year did Congress finally limit slave trade?

Answer:The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson in March of 1807 and took effect January 1, 1808.A further act was passed in 1820 which defined the attempt to collect, confine or transport people for the purposes of importing them into slavery as an act of piracy, punishable by death.All slavery within the United States was abolished by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1865.


Why were slaves freed in South Africa?

The Ottoman Empire stopped slavery in Africa. Slavery was abolished from Africa in the year of 1847. In the US, slavery was abolished in 1865.