Comments by "gary K" (@garyK.45ACP) on "Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron" video.

  1. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 of the US Constitution allowed for legislation to ban the import of human slaves 20 years after the Constitution was ratified. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution. While the British continued their efforts against slavery, after 1808 it was not the United States where the slaves were bound, but to colonies in the Caribbean that were not part of the US. Democrats controlling the south kept the institution of slavery intact in the USA until forced to end it by Republicans invading and, finally, taking control of the southern states, and maintaining control of the states until they adopted state constitutions which admonished slavery. The last Democrat run state to do so was Georgia, readmitted to the union in 1870. It took another 110 years for the Democrat controlled south to finally relinquish and give up their segregationist attitudes and cast off the Democrat slavery/segregation legacy in the elections of 1980...when the Democrats finally lost "the solid south". As the south became much less segregated, it became much more Republican.
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