National Dialogues on Immigration

The Slave Trade Act


December 17, 2013  |  Uncategorized
1808 Forced Iimportation of enslaved Africans outlawed

The forced importation of enslaved Africans is outlawed with the Slave Trade Act of 1808. According to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, up to 10.8 million Africans arrived in the Americas through the importation of slaves.

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