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Black History Month trivia quiz answer from Feb. 11

Posted 2/11/2008

In honor of Black History Month, we will be running a question about Black History each day this week and posting the answers in the Announcements.

The question from Feb. 11:

When did the foreign slave trade end in the United States?
The foreign slave trade was abolished in 1808.
The foreign slave trade ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 abolished the foreign slave trade.

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution debated the issue of slavery and ended up with a compromise, which appears in the so-called slavery clause (Article I, Section 9): the slave trade would be legal in the first years of the republic, but could be prohibited beginning in 1808. Congress abolished the foreign slave trade on Jan 1, 1808.

Source: www.infoplease.com

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