alleryStart learning →What last victory had the earlier antislavery movement won in 1808?
ACongress abolished the slave trade with Africa
BCongress abolished slavery in the border states
CCongress barred slavery from the new territories
DCongress freed all slaves born after that year
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Congress abolished the slave trade with Africa
1. An antislavery movement had grown as an offshoot of the American Revolution.
2. Its last victory came in 1808, when Congress abolished the slave trade with Africa.
3. After that the Quakers kept up a mild and largely ineffectual protest.
4. Meanwhile the cotton gin was creating a rising demand for slaves.
5. A fresh phase of agitation only began in the 1820s.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section DEBATE OVER SLAVERY MOUNTS_
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