What major event in 1808 changed the course of American slavery?

a) prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade by the American and British governments
b) the American Civil War
c) the large-scale migration of Irish and Italian immigrants to the United States
d) the Louisiana Purchase


Answer: a

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