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The suppression of the African slave trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
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9780486409108
9780199384358
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2. Rise of the English Slave-Trade 1 --
Chapter II. Planting Colonies --
3. Character of these Colonies 7 --
4. Restrictions in Georgia 7 --
5. Restrictions in South Carolina 9 --
6. Restrictions in North Carolina 11 --
7. Restrictions in Virginia 12 --
8. Restrictions in Maryland 14 --
9. General Character of these Restrictions 15 --
Chapter III. Farming Colonies --
10. Character of these Colonies 16 --
11. Dutch Slave-Trade 17 --
12. Restrictions in New York 18 --
13. Restrictions in Pennsylvania and Delaware 20 --
14. Restrictions in New Jersey 24 --
15. General Character of these Restrictions 25 --
Chapter IV. Trading Colonies --
16. Character of these Colonies 27 --
17. New England and the Slave-Trade 27 --
18. Restrictions in New Hampshire 29 --
19. Restrictions in Massachusetts 30 --
20. Restrictions in Rhode Island 33 --
21. Restrictions in Connecticut 37 --
22. General Character of these Restrictions 37 --
Chapter V. Period of the Revolution, 1774-1787 --
23. Situation in 1774 39 --
24. Condition of the Slave-Trade 40 --
25. Slave-Trade and the "Association" 41 --
26. Action of the Colonies 42 --
27. Action of the Continental Congress 44 --
28. Reception of the Slave-Trade Resolution 45 --
29. Results of the Resolution 47 --
30. Slave-Trade and Public Opinion after the War 48 --
31. Action of the Confederation 50 --
Chapter VI. Federal Convention, 1787 --
32. First Proposition 53 --
33. General Debate 54 --
34. Special Committee and the "Bargain" 58 --
35. Appeal to the Convention 59 --
36. Settlement by the Convention 61 --
37. Reception of the Clause by the Nation 62 --
38. Attitude of the State Conventions 65 --
39. Acceptance of the Policy 68 --
Chapter VII. Toussaint L'Ouverture and Anti-Slavery Effort, 1787-1807 --
40. Influence of the Haytian Revolution 70 --
41. Legislation of the Southern States 71 --
42. Legislation of the Border States 72 --
43. Legislation of the Eastern States 73 --
44. First Debate in Congress, 1789 74 --
45. Second Debate in Congress, 1790 75 --
46. Declaration of Powers, 1790 78 --
47. Act of 1794 80 --
48. Act of 1800 81 --
49. Act of 1803 84 --
50. State of the Slave-Trade from 1789 to 1803 85 --
51. South Carolina Repeal of 1803 86 --
52. Louisiana Slave-Trade, 1803-1805 87 --
53. Last Attempts at Taxation, 1805-1806 91 --
54. Key-Note of the Period 92 --
Chapter VIII. Period of Attempted Suppression, 1807-1825 --
55. Act of 1807 94 --
56. First Question: How shall illegally imported Africans be disposed of? 96 --
57. Second Question: How shall Violations be punished? 102 --
58. Third Question: How shall the Interstate Coastwise Slave-Trade be protected? 104 --
59. Legislative History of the Bill 105 --
60. Enforcement of the Act 108 --
61. Evidence of the Continuance of the Trade 109 --
62. Apathy of the Federal Government 112 --
63. Typical Cases 117 --
64. Supplementary Acts, 1818-1820 118 --
65. Enforcement of the Supplementary Acts, 1818-1825 123 --
Chapter IX. International Status of the Slave-Trade, 1783-1862 --
66. Rise of the Movement against the Slave-Trade, 1788-1807 131 --
67. Concerted Action of the Powers, 1783-1814 133 --
68. Action of the Powers from 1814 to 1820 134 --
69. Struggle for an International Right of Search, 1820-1840 136 --
70. Negotiations of 1823-1825 138 --
71. Attitude of the United States and the State of the Slave-Trade 141 --
72. Quintuple Treaty, 1839-1842 143 --
73. Final Concerted Measures, 1842-1862 146 --
Chapter X. Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, 1820-1850 --
74. Economic Revolution 151 --
75. Attitude of the South 154 --
76. Attitude of the North and Congress 155 --
77. Imperfect Application of the Laws 158 --
78. Responsibility of the Government 161 --
79. Activity of the Slave-Trade, 1820-1850 162 --
Chapter XI. Final Crisis, 1850-1870 --
80. Movement against the Slave-Trade Laws 168 --
81. Commercial Conventions of 1855-1856 169 --
82. Commercial Conventions of 1857-1858 170 --
83. Commercial Convention of 1859 172 --
84. Public Opinion in the South 173 --
85. Question in Congress 175 --
86. Southern Policy in 1860 176 --
87. Increase of the Slave-Trade from 1850 to 1860 178 --
88. Notorious Infractions of the Laws 180 --
89. Apathy of the Federal Government 183 --
90. Attitude of the Southern Confederacy 188 --
91. Attitude of the United States 191 --
Chapter XII. Essentials in the Struggle --
92. How the Question Arose 194 --
93. Moral Movement 195 --
94. Political Movement 196 --
95. Economic Movement 197 --
96. Lesson for Americans 197 --
A. A Chronological Conspectus of Colonial and State Legislation restricting the African Slave-Trade, 1641-1787 201 --
B. A Chronological Conspectus of State, National, and International Legislation, 1788-1871 230 --
C. Typical Cases of Vessels engaged in the American Slave-Trade, 1619-1864 289.
From the eBook
The planting colonies
The farming colonies
The trading colonies
The period of revolution, 1774-1787
The federal convention, 1787
Toussaint L'Ouverture and anti-slavery effort, 1787-1806
The period of attempted suppression, 1807-1825
The international status of the slave-trade, 1783-1862
The rise of the cotton kingdom, 1820-1850
The final crisis, 1850-1870
The essentials in the struggle.
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