A convention of slave-owning businesses, having met in Vicksburg, Mississippi for the previous ten days, concludes that the ban on the international slave trade must be lifted, in the face of the ever rising prices of slave field hands.
NOTE: It was the northern slave States that were most in favor of the ban on the international slave trade, as most of their profits from slavery came, not from slave labor itself, but by selling slaves to the southern slave States.
[restored 3/4/2022]
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Authority:
Mississippi Constitution of 1832, Article I, Section 7
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 155.
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