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Oct 25, 2006 · The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 : Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Samuel Hopkins, about 1770, was shocked at the state of the trade: more than thirty distilleries were running in the colony, and one hundred and fifty vessels were in the slave-trade. 34 "Rhode Island," said he, "has been more deeply interested in the slave-trade, and has enslaved more Africans than any other colony in New England."
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- Slave trade- Slave trade--United States- Appendices; A. A chronological conspectus of colonial and state legislation restricting the African slave-trade, 1641-1787.--B. A chronological conspectus of state, national, and international le...- Also available in digital form.The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America (1894) was W. E. B. Du Bois's doctoral thesis for Harvard University which he finished while teaching at Wilberforce University.
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- W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
- English
- 1896
Oct 1, 2013 · The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois was published on October 1, 2013 by Harvard University Press.
With thorough research, DuBois starts with the individual states’ motives (or lack thereof) for slowing or abolishing the trade, such as lack of economic use for slaves or a replication of the Haitian Revolution on American soil, why the trade sped back up after the American Revolution, and how the gradual move towards abolition of the ...
