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The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson in March of 1807 and took effect January 1, 1808.

A further act was passed in 1820 which classified the attempt to collect and transport people for the purposes of importing them into slavery an act of piracy, punishable by death.

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