6 sentences with “importation”

Also, a relatively small part of the slave trade soon included the importation of slaves to work first the tobacco fields and then the cotton fields further south.

As noted above, after centuries of slave trade with West Africa, Congress prohibited further importation of slaves beginning in 1808. The domestic slave trade then expanded rapidly.

Initially, France tried to keep British cloth out of its own markets, but in 1786 the two kingdoms negotiated the Treaty of Eden, which allowed the importation of British manufactured goods.

In 1807, the US Congress abolished the foreign slave trade, a ban that took effect on 1 January 1808. After this date, the importation of slaves from Africa became illegal in the United States.

Food was expensive, in part because of an 1815 law in the British Parliament called the Corn Laws that banned the importation of grain and kept prices high (the wealthy, land-owning noble class had pushed the law through parliament).

He wrote: "It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the negroes in the state, and thus save the expense of supplying, by the importation of white settlers, the vacancies which they will leave? The deep-seated prejudices which the whites have, the ten thousand memories which the negroes have of the wrongs they have suffered, the new provocations, the real distinctions which nature has made, and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably end in nothing but the extermination of one race or the other. To these objections, which are political, may be added others, which are physical and moral".