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Chapter Ten. Divergent Paths: The Anglo-American Abolitions Of The Atlantic Slave Trade

Seymour Drescher

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In February 1807 House of Representatives voted to abolish African slave trade to United States by a vote of 113 to 5. This was probably the closest approach to unanimity ever recorded in a congressional roll-call vote on a significant slavery issue in antebellum United States. On eve of American Revolution Anglo-Americans shared a common civil and political legacy. On both sides of Atlantic they took pride in their representative political institutions and in common law inheritance that protected individual rights of freeborn subjects against arbitrary state coercion. By end of 'Age of Revolution' (1775-1825) United States government had begun a foot-dragging exercise that was to lead republic well away from policy of interdiction pursued by British. Keywords: African slave trade; age of revolution; Anglo-Americans; political institutions

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In February 1807 House of Representatives voted to abolish African slave trade to United States by a vote of 113 to 5. This was probably the closest approach to unanimity ever recorded in a congressional roll-call vote on a significant slavery issue in antebellum United States. On eve of American Revolution Anglo-Americans shared a common civil and political legacy. On both sides of Atlantic they took pride in their representative political institutions and in common law inheritance that protected individual rights of freeborn subjects against arbitrary state coercion. By end of 'Age of Revolution' (1775-1825) United States government had begun a foot-dragging exercise that was to lead republic well away from policy of interdiction pursued by British. Keywords: African slave trade; age of revolution; Anglo-Americans; political institutions

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In February 1807 House of Representatives voted to abolish African slave trade to United States by a vote of 113 to 5. This was probably the closest approach to unanimity ever recorded in a congressional roll-call vote on a significant slavery issue in antebellum United States. On eve of American Revolution Anglo-Americans shared a common civil and political legacy. On both sides of Atlantic they took pride in their representative political institutions and in common law inheritance that protected individual rights of freeborn subjects against arbitrary state coercion. By end of 'Age of Revolution' (1775-1825) United States government had begun a foot-dragging exercise that was to lead republic well away from policy of interdiction pursued by British. Keywords: African slave trade; age of revolution; Anglo-Americans; political institutions

Key concepts: Atlantic slave trade, History, Ancient history

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