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To: ansel12

The United States Congress passed the Slave Trade Act of 1794, which prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in the U.S. for use in the slave trade.


211 posted on 04/28/2013 8:55:06 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: donmeaker; SeeSharp

I have no idea why you are posting that stuff to me, why not post it to the guy who believes that the republican party was not anti-slavery, or that thinks that the party ran the trans-Atlantic slave trade until 1884?


214 posted on 04/28/2013 9:07:38 PM PDT by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult)
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