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The importation of new slaves was made illegal in the United States in 1808 as part of the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. This law went into effect on January 1, 1808.
It was illegal to import slaves into the United States from Africa after 1808, as stated in the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves.
It became illegal to import slaves into the United States on January 1, 1808, following the enactment of the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves.
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.
Two compromises reached over the issue of the slave trade were the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for representation in Congress, and the Constitutional Compromise of 1808, which allowed the United States to ban the importation of slaves in 1808.
The importation of new slaves was made illegal in the United States in 1808 as part of the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. This law went into effect on January 1, 1808.
congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa in 1808
The importation of slaves in the United States was abolished on January 1, 1808.
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It permitted Congress to outlaw the importation of slaves in 1808.
It was illegal to import slaves into the United States from Africa after 1808, as stated in the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves.
This is true in the later years of slavery in the US. Importation of slaves was made illegal in 1808.
It became illegal to import slaves into the United States on January 1, 1808, following the enactment of the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves.
Congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa.
In 1808, the law forbidding the foreign slave trade that had been signed into law by Thomas Jefferson in 1807, went into effect. A stipulation in the constitution that prohibited the end of the trade until 1808, prohibited acting on this for another year. The new laws were somewhat loosely enforced with Britain â??deportingâ?? slaves into the United States until 1860 and it remaining a viable trade in Britain in the 19th century.