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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America

by W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

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"The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America" by W. E. B. Du Bois is a doctoral thesis completed in 1894. This groundbreaking work traces the complex history of the slave trade from colonial times through the Civil War era. Du Bois examines slavery's role in the American Revolution, its protection by the Constitution, the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Southern slave owners, and the economics of slave-produced cotton that shaped the nation's destiny.

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Volume I
Harvard Historical Studies

Longmans, Green, and Co.
New York

Preface

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.

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This free edition of The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America by W. E. B. Du Bois comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #17700, released 2006-02-07. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: History - American, History - Ancient, History - Modern (1750+).

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