When was the trading of slaves banned in America, and in Britain?
~ Your question is misleading, contains a false premise or indicates you either don’t know what you are asking or don’t know how to ask it. As long as slavery was legal, the slave trade was legal. After the US and Great Britain outlawed the importation of slaves, the trade became an internal affair but there still was a legal slave trade. What one can own, one can buy and sell. The Constitution of the USA prohibited any law to outlaw the importation of slaves until at least 1808, although individual states could, and did, prohibit the practice before that. Thomas Jefferson signed a bill abolishing the slave trade in March, 1807, and the bill became law on January 1, 1808. After that, it was illegal to import slaves from outside the US. Smuggling continued after that in the north as well as the south but it was illegal. The law did not prohibit the slave trade within the US and most slaves held in bondage in the US were born and bred in the the US. By its constitution, the Confederate S
