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This year marked the first slave voyage from Africa to the Americas. The next 350 years would be deemed as the Transatlantic Slave Trade and some 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa around the world. 10.7 million arrived in the Americas, including the Caribbean, South America, and North America.
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This law was passed by the British Parliament and outlawed the buying and selling of enslaved people in the British Empire. -
This law temporarily addressed the issue of slavery in the new states. It was signed by President James Monroe. Eventually Missouri became a slave state while Maine was a non-slave state and the nation would remain equal. This held for 24 years until the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. And in 1857 the Supreme Court ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. -
This law helped create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The new land that was opened up for the transcontinental railroad caused an intensified debate over slavery and ultimately led to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas was a violent period where Kansas was voted on either being a free state or a slave state. This was actually a major event that caused political conflict and led to the civil war of 1861 -
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for a crime
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While mostly for prohibiting immigration, it was also the first law to prohibit the trafficking of women for prostitution.
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The Mann Act, passed in June 1910 and named after Illinois Congressman James R. Mann , invoked the Commerce Clause to felonize the use of interstate or foreign commerce to transport women for immoral purposes. The Act was aimed at prostitution , immorality, and human trafficking. Congress appointed a commission in 1907 to investigate into the problem of immigrant prostitutes.
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The International Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children in 1921 was a landmark in the history of international human rights law. It highlighted the urgent need to protect the most vulnerable members of society from exploitation and abuse.
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The first legally binding international agreement on human trafficking. However, as of the present, only 66 nations have ratified it.
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Made to provide protection to trafficking victims and the prosecution of traffickers within the United States.
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Each reauthorization was meant to update and officialize the permission of something. Allowing new government officials to help change or revise them.