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	Slavery in America
		Slave patrols were established in 1811 in response to an uprising of slaves in nearby Louisiana.
		It was unlawful for any persons to liberate their slaves unless they first proved to the satisfaction of the General Assembly that such slave or slaves had performed some meritorious act, either for the benefit of the owner, or for the benefit of the territory.
		Enslaved fls were prohibited from rioting, using provoking or insulting language to anyone not fl, or lifting his or her hand in opposition to any one not fl unless in self-defense.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /geography/slave_laws_MS.htm (12700 words)

	Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting African Americans
		In 1779, Negro Sylvia was born a slave in Virginia and she became the property of the defendant [George Coryell], a citizen of Virginia.
		A vessel engaged in the slave trade, even if prohibited by the laws of the country to which it belongs, cannot, for that cause alone, be seized on the high seas, and brought in for adjudication, in time of peace, in the courts of another country.
		545, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise act, prohibiting the holding and ownership of slaves in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the constitution, and is therefore void; Right of property in slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
	academic.udayton.edu /race/03justice/aalaws01.htm (2971 words)

	History of American slavery until 1820
		In 1787 an act was adopted prohibiting slavery in the territory northwest of the Ohio, but providing for the surrender of fugitive slaves from that territory.
		That the number of slaves was rapidly increasing became very evident, and colonization-schemes were proposed to dispose of free negroes and illegally-imported slaves.
		Slave labor, which had begun to grow highly unsatisfactory, at once advanced in importance, and the demand for slaves rapidly increased.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_III/blackamer_be.html (1103 words)

	The Slave Trade
		In December 1805, a bill was introduced to the Senate prohibiting the importation of slaves to take effect in 1808, however, in April it was decided to postpone discussion of the issue until a later date.
		As we have seen from the case study of the 1808 law prohibiting the importation of slaves, the slave trade was an issue not easily defined and confronted.
		Abolition of the slave trade, although legally applicable to the entire United States, primarily affected the Southern states where slavery was still legal, because slaves were not usually brought to ports of a free state.
	www.american.edu /TED/slave.htm (2905 words)

	Slavery Debate at the Constitutional Convention
		He mentioned the dangerous insurrections of the slaves in Greece and Sicily; and the instructions given by Cromwell to the Commissioners sent to Virginia, to arm the servants and slaves, in case other means of obtaining its submission should fail.
		As he had never owned a slave could not judge of the effects of slavery on character: He said however that if it was to be considered in a moral light we ought to go farther and free those already in the Country.
		He remarked on the exemption of slaves from duty whilst every other import was subjected to it, as an inequality that could not fail to strike the commercial sagacity of the Northern and middle States.
	www.sagehistory.net /constitution/ConstDebate.html (2061 words)

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		By their acts of cession, they abdicated their own sovereignty over the District, and thus made room for that provided by the United States' constitution, which sovereignty was to commence as soon as a cession of territory by states, and its acceptance by Congress, furnished a sphere for its exercise.
		Slaves, like other inhabitants, are enumerated as "persons." So by the constitution, the government was pledged to non-interference with "the migration or importation of such _persons_" as the States might think proper to admit until 1808, and authorized the laying of a tax on each "person" so admitted.
		For offences against the government slaves are tried as _persons_; as persons they are entitled to counsel for their defence, to the rules of evidence, and to "due process of law," and as _persons_ they are punished.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/1/2/7/11272/11272-8.txt (15583 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History
		Second --That "all cases involving title to slaves" and "questions of personal freedom" are to be referred to the jurisdiction of the local tribunals, with the right of appeal to the supreme court of the United Staes [sic].
		I repeat that their resistence to carrying out in good faith the settlement of 1820, their defeat of the bill for extending it to the Pacific ocean, was the sole cause of the agitation of 1850, and gave rise to the necessity of establishing the principle of non-intervention by congress with slavery in the territories.
		The owners of slaves, he said, would be too timid and conservative to take them into new and unfavorable communities in larger number.(64) This theory was peculiarly confirmed in Nebraska, and doubtless would have been in Kansas after conditions had become settled there, but for the Civil war which swept slavery away entirely.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/honjsm05.html (8723 words)

	Slaves and Indentured in Revolutionary War
		They have endeavoured, as early and as extensively as it then was in their power, to reform our morals, by checking the progress of the general depravation, which, sooner or later, proves the ruin of the countries, where domestic slavery is introduced.
		Other States Have likewise, on extraordinary emergencies, hazarded to employ Slaves in their wars; but immediate, or conditional emancipation was, at the same time, held up, and most religiously bestowed on them, as the sacred retribution of gratitude.
		The Slaves, whom they intrusted with arms, in the defence of their territories, were not only allowed to dispose of their whole pay as they thought fit, but indiscriminately partook of every other advantage given to the freeborn soldiers of their respective States.
	www.celdf.org /DemocracySchool/AnOutlineoftheWeekendCurriculum/TheAmericanRevolution/SlavesandIndenturedinRevolutionaryWar/tabid/252/Default.aspx (1157 words)

	Slavery in the United States
		Similar prohibitions were in force in all the more northern States; but they did not prevent the merchants of those States from carrying on the slave-trade elsewhere, and already some New England ships were engaged in a traffic from the African coast to Georgia and South Carolina.
		In 1804 a provision was inserted into the act organizing the Territory of Orleans, that no slaves should be carried thither, except from some part of the United States, by citizens removing into the Territory as actual settlers, this permission not to extend to negroes introduced into the United States since 1798.
		The object of this provision was to guard against the effects of an act recently adopted by the legislature of South Carolina for reviving the slave-trade after a cessation of it, as to that State, for fifteen years, and of six years as to the whole Union.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /slavery/slavery-us-constitution.htm (2021 words)

	Virginia Slaves from North & South Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1778 the Virginia legislature passed an act prohibiting the importation of slaves into the state.
		Also excepted were travellers whose intent was to take their slaves out of the state with them.
		A further exception was made for those claiming slaves by descent, devise, or marriage and those owning slaves then residing out of the commonwealth.
	hometown.aol.com /kublekhan/virginia.htm (179 words)

	African-American History Timeline
		The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
		Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery (Dec. 6).
		A series of Reconstruction acts are passed, carving the former Confederacy into five military districts and guaranteeing the civil rights of freed slaves.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/bhmtimeline.html (2186 words)

	Non-Importation Law of Kentucky, 1833
		Be it further enacted, that this act shall not be construed to extend to any person or persons who are residents of this State, and who derive title to such slave or slaves by will, descent, distribution, or marriage, or gift in consideration of marriage.
		Be it further enacted, That for a violation of any of the provisions of this act, an indictment may be found on the information of any one of the grand jury, or on the information of any other credible witness, and no prosecutor shall be necessary.
		Be it further eacted, That any action or prosecution, which shall be brought for a violation of any of the provisions of this act, may be commenced at any time within five years from the commission of the offence, or the accrual of the cause of action and not after.
	www.uky.edu /~dolph/HIS316/sources/1833.html (235 words)

	Forum Topic
		As I recall, in the British documentation (I consulted FO 84), the Africans are called recaptives" or "prize negroes" quite often in the context of their capture, arrival and emancipation.
		Sometimes even "liberated slaves." Later on, during or after apprenticeship the group is often referred to as "liberated Africans", and it is a term by which they identify themselves and are identified as a group (beyond ethnic identities).
		It was a clause in the Brazilian law for the abolition of the slave trade passed in 1831.
	www.yorku.ca /nhp/forum/topic_list.asp?topic=35 (759 words)

	Guide to Sources for the History of Slavery in the University of Chicago Library
		Includes financial records, diaries, journals, records of slaves, correspondence and all sorts of personal papers of planters and their families.
		: narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom : as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author ; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road.
		Focusses upon importation of slaves from Africa, including financial concerns, risk factors; slave treatment and slave revolts on transoceanic voyages; regional original and destinations of captives; Caribbean economy in American colonial times; related molasses and rum trade.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/hist/slavguid.html (11637 words)

	Missouri Compromise — FactMonster.com
		To a statehood bill brought before the House of Representatives, James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment that would forbid importation of slaves and would bring about the ultimate emancipation of all slaves born in Missouri.
		The admission of Alabama as a slave state in 1819 had brought the slave states and free states to equal representation in the Senate, and it was seen that by pairing Maine (certain to be a free state) and Missouri, this equality would be maintained.
		The House rejected this compromise bill, but after a conference committee of members of both houses was appointed, the bills were treated separately, and in Mar., 1820, Maine was made a state and Missouri was authorized to adopt a constitution having no restrictions on slavery.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0833427.html (386 words)

	Equality: St. George Tucker to Jeremy Belknap
		The act was indeed only temporary, but was renewed as often as the influence of the African Company in England would permit.
		At length the duty was made payable by the buyers; but the acts imposing it were still temporary, though constantly renewed whenever an extraordinary supply of money was required, and was gradually increased from five to twenty per cent, ad valorem.
		As soon as the Revolution took place, the legislature passed an act prohibiting the importation of slaves, under the severest penalties; and permitting, what had hitherto been prohibited, the voluntary emancipation of them by their masters.
	press-pubs.uchicago.edu /founders/print_documents/v1ch15s52.html (485 words)

	Immigration... Global Immigration Timeline
		The American Homestead Act allows any male over the age of 21 and the head of a family to claim up to 160 acres of land and improve it within five years or to purchase the land at a small fee.
		The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspends immigration of Chinese laborers under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
		The act also reaffirms national origins quota system, limits immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere while leaving the Western Hemisphere unrestricted, establishes preferences for skilled workers and relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens; and tightens security and screening standards and procedures.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/timeline.html (1268 words)

	Program in Maritime Studies: Abstracts
		The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of the U.S. Navy in the suppression of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and West Indian piracy in the 1820s.
		The Charleston Navy Yard in Boston built the United States Schooner Alligator in 1820, under a congressional act prohibiting the trans-Atlantic slave trade, notably the importation of slaves into the United States and the participation of Americans in the trade.
		The first two voyages sent the schooner to the African coast, where she apprehended several slave ships and negotiated for land on which to establish a settlement for recaptured Africans and free slaves.
	www.ecu.edu /maritime/derby1.htm (274 words)

	Grizzard: Construction of UVA: 1996: Jefferson and Slavery, by A. D. White
		In his revision of the Virginia laws he reported "a bill to emancipate all slaves born after the passing of the act." Attached to this was a plan for the instruction of the young negroes thus set free.
		But, previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa.
		The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose rein to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by its odious peculiarities.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson/grizzard/white (5345 words)

	An account of the Amistad Case.
		(What Ruiz did not say was that the slaves were were recently brought from Africa and brought to Cuba in direct contravention of an 1817 treaty between Spain and Britain prohibiting the importation of slaves to Spanish colonies.
		The slaves were kept naked, flogged for not eating, and chained in a half-lying position.
		He described how Cuban authorities "winked at the slave trade in return for $10 to $15 a slave," used fraudulent documents to deceive inspectors, and would without hesitation kill the Amistad fls should they be returned to Cuba.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMI_ACT.HTM (3617 words)

	Thomas Jefferson
		During the Jefferson administration the Louisiana Territory was purchased from France, the Lewis and Clark expedition began, the twelfth amendment to the Constitution was ratified and the act prohibiting the importation of slaves from Africa became law.
		While Jefferson supported legislation to restrict slavery, he owned slaves throughout his life.
		In 1998 a DNA study was conducted with DNA from male descendants of Sally Hemings and male descendants of Jefferson's uncle.
	web.utk.edu /~ljohns49/ThomasJefferson.html (947 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Demigod
		He then imprisoned Peter with the intention of killing him also (Acts 12:3-5), but God had an angel go in and get him out (Acts 12:6-10).
		It was before him that the apostle Paul made his defence at Caesarea (Acts 25:13-27, 26:1-32).
		1793: The Upper Canada legislature passed an act prohibiting the importation of slaves into the colony, the first such law in the British empire.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2005/20050619.htm (1110 words)

	Slave Clauses Dr. Robert Brock
		Constitution and Slave Provisions by unilateral act of Whites.
		The extension of this slave traffic in Africans to 1808, was voted for by the whole of the New England States,
		The Slave clause was inserted in the Constitution by
	www.directblackaction.com /Slave_clauses.html (682 words)

	Amazon.com: importation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, In response to Senate resolution of March 9, reports of Special Agent Spaulding relative to the charge of fraudulent importation of Chinese.
		To Prohibit the Importation of Foreign Contract Labor into the United States, etc....
		The importation into the United States of the Parasites of the gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth (History of ecology) by L. O Howard (Unknown Binding - 1977)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=importation&search-type=ss&tag=theflightsima-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (451 words)

	American Colonization Society Collection (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		In this 1849 letter, President Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Liberia appeals to the government and people of the United States for aid in purchasing the territory of Gallinas, enabling Liberia to control the West-African coast from Sierra Leone to Cape Palmas.
		As incentive, Roberts boasts of the eradication of the slave trade in territories recently acquired by Liberia and points out that adding Gallinas would enable the republic to keep the whole coast "free from the demoralizing and wilting influence of the Slave trade."
		In 1819, Congress passed an "Act in addition to the acts prohibiting the Slave Trade." This act authorized the president to send a naval squadron to African waters to apprehend illegal slave traders and appropriated $100,000 to resettle recaptured slaves in Africa.
	www.loc.gov /rr/print/coll/007-b.html (397 words)

	Timeline of United States history (1790-1819)
		Madison 5 US 137 1803 allows U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate law passed by Congress for first time, the Judiciary Act of 1789
		Peck 10 US 87 1810 marks first time U.S. Supreme Court invalidates state legislative act
		Maryland 17 US 316 1819 prohibits state laws from infringing upon Federal constitutional authority
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/t/ti/timeline_of_united_states_history__1790_1819_.html (214 words)

	HIST 40623-015
		The Department of History seeks to educate students in the development of world culture and events and to help students understand historical inquiry so they can think and act as informed and ethical leaders and responsible citizens in a global community.
		This includes plagiarism (the act of passing off the work of another as one’s own), copying the exam or paper of another student, and changing a grade, notation or answer on an exam or paper that has already been turned in, graded and returned.
		Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, March 2, 1807
	personal.tcu.edu /~gsmith/HIST40623.htm (737 words)

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