The US Constitution specified that Congress was free to outlaw the slave trade after 20 years. Congress did so the first date it was allowed.
The Constitution prohibited Congress from outlawing the Atlantic slave trade for twenty years.
(Slavery)
Slave families were split up
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.
Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade
The 1808 Slave Trade Compromise in the Constitution.
no
(Slavery)
1807
The United States Constitution protected the slave trade for twenty years. This protection was not to expire prior to the year 1808. After January first of that year, laws could take effect to end the slave trade in the United States.
Congress was given the power to ban the slave trade after 1808.
1868
for economic results
The constitution should prohibit the states from participating in the international slave trade.
the answer is 10 years
slavery and the slave trade were still legal
Slavery and the slave trade were still legal.