Slave Trade Act
Slave Trade Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States that relates to the slave trade.
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The "See also" section lists other Slave Acts, laws, and international conventions which developed the concept of slavery, and then the resolution and abolition of slavery, including a timeline of when various nations abolished slavery.
List
    
    United Kingdom
    
- The Slave Trade Act 1788 (a.k.a. Dolben's Act)
 - 47 Geo 3 Sess 1 c 36, sometimes called the Slave Trade Act 1807
 - 51 Geo 3 c. 23 Slave Trade Felony Act 1811
 - The Slave Trade Act 1824
 - The Slave Trade Act 1843
 - 8 & 9 Vict c 122 sometimes called the Aberdeen Act (1845)
 - The Slave Trade Act 1873
 - The Modern Slavery Act 2015
 
United States
    
- The Slave Trade Act of 1794
 - The Slave Trade Act of 1800
 - Act to prevent the importation of certain persons [slaves] into certain states . . ., 1803[1][2]
 - Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, 1807
 - The Slave Trade Act of 1818
 - 1819 U.S. law, amended in 1820, which impacted the slave trade
 - Act in Relation to Service
 - Act for the relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners
 
See also
    
- Abolition of slavery timeline
 - Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
 - Abolitionism in the United States
 - Slavery in international law
 - Slavery in the British Isles
 - Slavery in the United States
 - Slavery in the colonial history of the United States
 - Lyons–Seward Treaty of 1862
 - Brussels Conference Act of 1890
 - 1921 International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children (League of Nations)
 - 1926 Slavery Convention (League of Nations)
 - 1930 Forced Labour Convention of the International Labour Organization
 - 1948 Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)
 - 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery (United Nations)
 - List of short titles
 
United Kingdom
- Slavery at common law
 - Barbados Slave Code of 1661
 - Amelioration Act 1798
 - Slavery Abolition Act 1833
 - Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights
 - Human Rights Act 1998
 
United States
- Partus sequitur ventrem
 - Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution
 - Three-Fifths Compromise of the U.S. Constitution
 - Slave and free states
 - Slave codes pertaining to individual states
 - Northwest Ordinance of 1787
 - Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
 - Missouri Compromise (1820)
 - Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842
 - Compromise of 1850
 - Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
 - Act in Relation to Service (1851)
 - Confiscation Act of 1861
 - Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves (1862)
 - Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
 - Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
 - Freedmen's Bureau bills
 - Shipping Commissioners Act of 1872
 
Other
References
    
- Weekly Standard: Founding Fathers Opposed Slavery, The Founders put slavery on the path to ultimate extinction, Abraham Lincoln said.
 - Abraham Lincoln's Peoria speech, "In 1803 they passed a law in aid of one or two State laws, in restraint of the internal slave trade."
 
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