The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 Quotes

“social problem, which required two centuries and a half for a nation of trained European stock and boasted moral fibre to solve.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“Blanco and Carballo of Havana, who owned the vessel, had correspondents in the United States: "at Baltimore, Messrs. Peter Harmony and Co., in New York, Robert Barry, Esq." 57 The slaver "Martha" of New York, captured by the "Perry," contained among her papers curious revelations of the guilt of persons in America who were little suspected.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“the American slave-trade finally came to be carried on principally by United States capital, in United States ships, officered by United States citizens, and under the United States flag.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“The demand for land showed itself in the annexation of Texas, the conquest of Mexico, and the movement toward the acquisition of Cuba.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“The changes in price during the next few years drove out of competition many survivors of the small-farming free-labor system, and put the slave régime in position to dictate the policy of the nation.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“In 1822 the crop was a half-million bales; in 1831, a million; in 1838, a million and a half; and in 1840–1843, two million. By this time the world's consumption of cotton goods began to increase so rapidly that, in spite of the increase in Southern crops, the price kept rising. Three million bales were gathered in 1852, three and a half million in 1856, and the remarkable crop of five million bales in 1860. 5”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“a new economic future was opened up to this land, and immediately the whole South began to extend its cotton culture, and more and more to throw its whole energy into this one staple.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“England, the chief cotton market of the world, the consumption of raw cotton rose steadily from 13,000 bales in 1781, to 572,000 in 1820, to 871,000 in 1830, and to 3,366,000 in 1860.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“During the years 1810–1814 she signed treaties relating to the subject with Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden. 13 May 30, 1814, an additional article to the Treaty of Paris, between France and Great Britain, engaged these powers to endeavor to induce the approaching Congress at Vienna "to decree the abolition of the Slave Trade, so that the said Trade shall cease universally, as it shall cease definitively, under any circumstances, on the part of the French Government, in the course of 5 years; and that during the said period no Slave Merchant shall import or sell Slaves, except in the Colonies of the State of which he is a Subject.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“France, 250,000; Denmark, 27,000; Spain and Portugal, 600,000; Holland, 50,000; Sweden, 600; there were also about 2,000,000 slaves in Brazil, and about 900,000 in the United States.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“In 1820, September 16, a British officer, in his official report, declares that, in spite of United States laws, "American vessels, American subjects, and American capital, are unquestionably engaged in the trade, though under other colours and in disguise.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“negro." 44”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“constitutional, and moral.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“political,”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“1807”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“crime.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“water.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“importation;”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“disposal of illegally imported Africans;”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

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― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“years from 1787 to 1807”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“Only slaves imported before May 1, 1798, could be introduced, and those must be slaves of actual settlers. 68 All slaves illegally imported were freed.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“South Carolina's own Congressman confessed that although the State had prohibited the trade since 1788, she "was unable to enforce" her laws. "With navigable rivers running into the heart of it," said he, "it was impossible, with our means, to prevent our Eastern brethren, who, in some parts of the Union, in defiance of the authority of the General Government, have been engaged in this trade, from introducing them into the country. The law was completely evaded, and, for the last year or two [1802–3], Africans were introduced into the country in numbers little short, I believe, of what they would have been had the trade been a legal one.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“Crucifixion, burning, and starvation were legal modes of punishment.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“The company contracted to supply the West Indies with three thousand slaves annually; but contraband trade, misconduct, and war so reduced it that in 1672 it surrendered”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“This monograph was begun during my residence as Rogers Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and is based mainly upon a study of the sources, i.e., national, State, and colonial statutes, Congressional documents, reports of societies, personal narratives, etc. The collection of laws available for this research was, I think, nearly complete; on the other hand, facts and statistics bearing on the economic side of the study have been difficult to find, and my conclusions are consequently liable to modification from this source.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“The "Paz" was an armed slaver flying the American flag.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“the United States succeeded by State action in prohibiting the slave-trade from 1798 to 1803, in furthering the cause of abolition, and in preventing the fitting out of slave-trade expeditions in United States ports. The country had good cause to congratulate itself.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870