To the horror of antislavery advocates, the slave trade from Africa, banned in the United States since 1808, continued well into the 1860s. The enslaved were still being captured along the western and southeastern coasts of that continent, despite international agreements to halt the trade, and Cuba still accepted them legally, the last place in the Western Hemisphere to do so.
Greenfield Gazette and Courier. “The African Slave Trade.” February 25, 1861. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l02-117/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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