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  2. Slavery and religion - Wikipedia

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    In 1787 the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was formed, and 9 of its 12 founding members were Quakers; William Wilberforce, an early supporter of the society, went on to push through the 1807 Slave Trade Act, striking a major blow against the Atlantic slave trade.

  3. Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia

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    The compromise also included a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law and banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C. The issue of slavery in the territories would be re-opened by the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854), but the Compromise of 1850 played a major role in postponing the American Civil War .

  4. Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Through the compromise, California was admitted as a free state after its state convention unanimously opposed slavery there, Texas was financially compensated for the loss of its territories northwest of the modern state borders, and the slave trade (not slavery) was abolished in the District of Columbia.

  5. List of landmark African-American legislation - Wikipedia

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    Reached as a compromise between the Northern free states and the Southern slave states. Article I, Section 9, Clause 1: Prohibited Congress from prohibiting the international slave trade before the year 1808. Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3: Mandated that runaway slaves must be extradited to their state of origin.

  6. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After Great Britain and the United States outlawed the international slave trade in 1807, British slave trade suppression activities began in 1808 through diplomatic efforts and the formation of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron in 1809. The United States denied the Royal Navy the right to stop and search U.S. ships suspected as slave ships ...

  7. Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves - Wikipedia

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    In addition to whipping up sectional tensions, Fire-Eaters advocated the reopening of the slave trade in order to drive down the price of slaves; to balance the millions of European immigrants who had settled in the North and maintain Southern representation in Congress; and assert the morality of slavery: "Slave trading had to be made right ...

  8. George Clymer - Wikipedia

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    The question of the slave trade, i.e. the import of new slaves into the United States, was one of the most contentious issues for the framers. Clymer was on the committee to draft a Slave Trade Compromise to postpone the slave trade decision until 1808. Clymer supported an "export tax" (tariff), which was a way to indirectly tax slavery, and ...

  9. Slavery and the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Throughout U.S. history there have been disputes about whether the Constitution was proslavery or antislavery. James Oakes writes that the Constitution's Fugitive Slave Clause and Three-Fifths Clause "might well be considered the bricks and mortar of the proslavery Constitution". [5] "

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