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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.
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The constitution allowed COngress to outlaw the slave trade, which it promptly did.
To prevent excess membership in the House from states with thousands of slaves - giving the South excessive voting power in Congress - only 3/5 of the slave population would figure into reapportioning seats in the House.
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The Confederate Constitution called for the end of the slave trade but not?
(Slavery)
Was the Atlantic Slave Trade the first kind of slave trade occurring in Africa?
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.
When the international slave trade ended and how did the slave trade continue?
Slave families were split up
What country dominated the slave trade?
Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
What country was the 1st to be invovled in the slave trade?
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade
