Describe the debate that led to a ban on the importation of slaves into the United States in 1808.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. In December 1806, Jefferson urged Congress to prepare legislation outlawing the slave trade.
2. Northern representatives generally favored a strong bill.
3. Northerners could not agree on what to do with black people captured by the customs agents who would enforce the legislation.
4. Southerners countered that no one in the South regarded slavery as evil and that planters would not help enforce a ban on the slave trade.
5. Nonetheless, Congress passed a law that prohibited importing slaves into the United States after January 1, 1808.
6. Southerners did not cooperate and African slaves continued to pour into southern ports.
7. Even more blacks would have been imported had Britain not also outlawed the slave trade in 1807.
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