Though the British Slave Trade Act of 1807 is famous, several 18th-century colonial assemblies passed earlier, weaker prohibitions—often ignored. For example, Rhode Island’s 1774 act banning slave importation was routinely flouted by merchants who filed false manifests, listing enslaved Africans as “indentured servants” or “cargo samples.”
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Below is a draft paper outlining the illegal aspects of the institution of legal slavery.
Though the British Slave Trade Act of 1807 is famous, several 18th-century colonial assemblies passed earlier, weaker prohibitions—often ignored. For example, Rhode Island’s 1774 act banning slave importation was routinely flouted by merchants who filed false manifests, listing enslaved Africans as “indentured servants” or “cargo samples.”
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Below is a draft paper outlining the illegal aspects of the institution of legal slavery. Though the British Slave Trade Act of 1807