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The 13th Amendment to the USA Constitution abolished slavery in the country in 1865.

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The international slave trade was made illegal in the United States in 1808 under the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. However, domestic slavery persisted until the end of the Civil War in 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the country.

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What year was slave trade banned?

The United States banned the transatlantic slave trade in 1808, although illegal smuggling of slaves continued. The British Empire abolished the slave trade in 1807, and slavery itself was outlawed throughout the British Empire in 1833.


What year did slave trades become illegal?

The transatlantic slave trade was abolished in the 19th century, with most countries passing laws to prohibit the trade by the mid-1800s. For example, the United States officially outlawed the importation of slaves in 1808. However, it's important to note that despite the laws, illegal slave trading continued in some regions for many years thereafter.


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What year did the slave trade start and end?

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Constitution made slave trade legal until what year?

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.


What year did triangular trade end?

The transatlantic slave trade was abolished in the United States from 1 January 1808. However some slaving continued on an illegal basis for the next fifty years.


On what date did African slave trade end?

1865 is when Black slave trade ended in America. While January 1, 1808 was date for ending importation of slaves, the internal American slave trade (black slaves passed around within states) and involvement in the international slave trade or outfitting of ships for that trade by U.S. citizens were not banned.


What year did the US Constitution permit the slave trade to continue?

1807


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The year the north agreed to continue slave trade?

It was 1845 March 13.


What year did the delegates of the constitution agree that they would NOT ban slave trade?

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