Slave Trade Act
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Slave Trade Actis a stockshort titleused for legislation in theUnited Kingdomand theUnited Statesthat relates to theslave trade.
The "See also" section lists other Slave Acts, laws, and international conventions which developed the concept of slavery, and then the resolution andabolition of slavery,includinga timelineof when various nations abolished slavery.
List
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]- TheSlave Trade Act 1788(a.k.a. Dolben's Act)
- 47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1.c. 36, sometimes called theSlave Trade Act 1807
- Slave Trade Felony Act 1811(51 Geo. 3.c. 23)
- TheSlave Trade Act 1824
- TheSlave Trade Act 1843
- 8 & 9 Vict.c. 122 sometimes called theAberdeen Act(1845)
- TheSlave Trade Act 1873
- TheAnglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention(1877, 1884)
- TheTreaty of Jeddah (1927)
- TheModern Slavery Act 2015
United States
[edit]- TheSlave Trade Act of 1794
- TheSlave Trade Act of 1800
- Act to prevent the importation of certain persons [slaves] into certain states...,1803[1][2]
- Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, 1807
- TheSlave Trade Act of 1818
- 1819 U.S. law, amended in 1820, which impacted the slave trade
- Act in Relation to Service
- Act for the relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners
See also
[edit]- Abolition of slavery timeline
- Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
- Abolitionism in the United States
- Slavery in international law
- Slavery in the British Isles
- Slavery in the United States
- Slavery in the colonial history of the United States
- Lyons–Seward Treaty of 1862
- Brussels Conference Act of 1890
- 1921 International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children(League of Nations)
- 1926 Slavery Convention(League of Nations)
- 1930 Forced Labour Conventionof theInternational Labour Organization
- 1948 Declaration of Human Rights(United Nations)
- 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery(United Nations)
- List of short titles
United Kingdom
- Slavery at common law
- Barbados Slave Code of 1661
- Amelioration Act 1798
- Slavery Abolition Act 1833
- Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights
- Human Rights Act 1998
United States
- Partus sequitur ventrem
- Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution
- Three-Fifths Compromise of the U.S. Constitution
- Slave and free states
- Slave codes pertaining to individual states
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Act in Relation to Service (1851)
- Confiscation Act of 1861
- Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves (1862)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Freedmen's Bureau bills
- Shipping Commissioners Act of 1872
Other
- 1871 Law of Free Birth in Brazil
- 1888 Lei Áurea (Golden Law) in Brazil
- 1793 Upper Canada Act Against Slavery
- Russian Emancipation reform of 1861
- Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention
References
[edit]- ^Weekly Standard: Founding Fathers Opposed Slavery,The Founders put slavery on the path to ultimate extinction, Abraham Lincoln said.
- ^Abraham Lincoln's Peoria speech,"In 1803 they passed a law in aid of one or two State laws, in restraint of the internal slave trade."