woodpusher:
"As expected, you could not repeat anything from the Act to support your lie that it restricted slave IMPORTS.
You are a low down lying dog-faced pony soldier which the worst sort of liberal Democrat." The 1794 Slave Trade Act, signed by Pres. Washington,
"The Slave Trade Act of 1794 was a law passed by the United States Congress that prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in U.S. ports for the international slave trade...
...In short, the Act limited the international slave trade to foreign ships, and foreign ships using United States' ports had to agree not to export from U.S. ports.[3][4]"
So, the act was aimed primarily at exports but its effects also restricted imports by US owned ships.
I agree it wasn't much, not like the 1808 law abolishing slave imports, but it was a start, signed by Pres. Washington.
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So, the act was aimed primarily at exports but its effects also restricted imports by US owned ships.I agree it wasn't much, not like the 1808 law abolishing slave imports, but it was a start, signed by Pres. Washington.
I have no interest in your repeated lies.
I provided the full text of the statute and it did not restrict IMPORTS. It says nothing bearing on imports.
As quoted, the Constitution prohibited Congress from passing any law restricting slave imports prior to 1808. There was was no such law in violation of the Constitution. Had such a staute been enacted, it would have been null and void.
As quoted from the 1 Statutes at Large 347,
The act of March 22, 1794, was intended to prohibit any citizen or resident of the United States from equipping vessels within the United States, carrying on trade or traffic in slaves to any foreign country. The Tryphernea, 1 Wash. C. C. R. 622.
Trade to a foreign country defines EXPORTS.