Pata Seca
Countless Africans were apprehended and sent to the Americas, where they were sold into slavery. When the inflow of European indentured servants to the Americas decreased in 1680, the African slave trade became even more profitable. For a long time afterwards, there was no shortage of enslaved people; they could always be imported to the land aboard slave ships from Africa. That all changed on March 2, 1807, when Congress passed legislation to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from any foreign kingdom, place, or country,” effectively putting an end to the African slave trade. The law went into effect on January 1, 1808, and the flow of new enslaved Africans into the United States and the Caribbean ceased.
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Countless Africans were apprehended and sent to the Americas, where they were sold into slavery. When the inflow of European indentured servants to the Americas decreased in 1680, the African slave trade became even more profitable. For a long time afterwards, there was no shortage of enslaved people; they could always be imported to the land ab...Read more