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Originally posted by Mr Mephisto
International slavery was illegal both in the United States and it was also "outlawed" by the United Kingdom (who attempted to police the seas) to quite some time before the Emancipation Declaration.
And even that didn't remove slavery entirely from US statute books.
Mr Mephisto
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the slave trade was outlawed and made illegal about 30 years before the emancipation proclimation, if i remember my history correctly. that doesn't change the fact that before then, it was legal to ship them over, and was still legal to own current and future-born generations of slaves until the emancipation proc.
so as long as it was legal in the states to own, and the shipping did not continue after outlawed (which probably did not happen 100%, but most of the big companies would have stopped), then there is no legal recourse.
as i said before <b>morally wrong, but legal</b>.
-hh