Slave Trade After 1808

Can someone educate me as to the status and intensity of the slave trade after 1808? I know that the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves ended the legality of the slave trade, but said act was poorly enforced and the trade went on until the civil war(Nathan Bedford Forrest supposedly was a prominent slave merchant). Which areas of Africa continued to be afflicted by American slavers, and approximately how many slaves were illegally kidnapped and sold between 1808 and 1861?
 
Can someone educate me as to the status and intensity of the slave trade after 1808? I know that the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves ended the legality of the slave trade, but said act was poorly enforced and the trade went on until the civil war(Nathan Bedford Forrest supposedly was a prominent slave merchant). Which areas of Africa continued to be afflicted by American slavers, and approximately how many slaves were illegally kidnapped and sold between 1808 and 1861?
Slave merchant can mean buying and selling within the US.

The British (with the assist of others) had a significant anti-slavery patrol off West Africa, and any slavers that got caught suffered nasty consequences. So the problem isn't slipping them into the US, it's getting them out of Africa. Sure, a few people tried, but the flow was VERY restricted AFAIK.
 

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Depend what you mean by slave trade. The African slave trade continued to flourish as long as there were demand. And some powers were slower to stop than the British and the American buyers. Also there was extensive slave trade between the African States, a flourishing Trans- Saharan slave route as well as the Red Sea trade that continued well into the 1900s. The Colonial Powers had huge problems stopping the slave trade in Africa, even though they at least pretended to be on an anti-slavery crusade. Not to mention forced labour, that in many cases was just rebranded slavery. All Colonial Powers used it, but especially the Portuguese were known to basically buy people and dragged them to the other side of the Continent or to the plantations on Sao Tomé.
 
A good example that trans atlantic slave trade continued after 1808 is the Amistad case. Slaves purchased in Africa were sold as having been born in the Caribbean. There was also an important domestic slave trade within the United States, with the upper south selling slaves to the lower south, to such an extent that numerous abolitionists claimed the true harvest of the upper south was a human one.
 
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After the slave trade was banned, it actually increased for quite a while.

"During 26 years 103,000 slaves had been emancipated [by British anti-slaving attempts], while at the same time 1,795,000 slaves were landed in the Americas."
-From The Black Man's Burden by Basil Davidson

I assume most of these went to Latin America, but surely some ended up in the States. How many, I have no clue, but I'm positive the number didn't decline for some time.

As for which parts of Africa were affected by American slavers, again I have no clue, but I wouldn't think the number was very large. Most of it was done by either Arabs or other Africans, with the Europeans acting as go-betweens. But as for which parts of Africa were affected by slaving in general, well, pretty much every part except for the Maghreb; but especially western Africa, where more states were dependent on it for income. Also, the Congo was hit pretty hard too.
 
You had a continuous slave trade in Mediterranea, in direction of the north-african regions mainly, Tunis and Alger as the main ports with the main slaves markets.

It was a mix with both Europeans (mainly Sicilians, and western italians) and Muslims, while the trade was ruled by "Turks" (both real ones, and converted Europeans called such) with the benediction and the help of some Europeans merchants (in the city of Marseilles by exemple).

It continued up to quite late, in Alger in 1830's after the french conquest, and in Tunis...maybe sooner due to the pressure of consuls. By 1850 you had still slaves, but the trade was almost disappeared.
 
Nathaniel Gordon, the only person tried, convicted and executed for slave-trading in the U.S.A., found his slaves around the mouth of the Congo River.
 
There was also a prominent Indian Ocean slave trade, that went on uninterrupted for a long time. However, these slaves generally became wives or household servants, and not plantation workers, so it wasn't quite as horrific.
 
Are there written statics on ...
What percentage of slave traders were Americans vs. nationals/citizens of other countries in N or S America between 1808 & 1861?
and ...
How many slaves were illegally imported into the US vs. the number of slaves imported into other countries in N or S America between 1808 & 1861?
 
Are there written statics on ...
What percentage of slave traders were Americans vs. nationals/citizens of other countries in N or S America between 1808 & 1861?
and ...

I'm sure you'll get a better answer, but I believe a disproportionate number in the Atlantic trade were Portuguese and Dutch.

How many slaves were illegally imported into the US vs. the number of slaves imported into other countries in N or S America between 1808 & 1861?

I think the vast bulk before and after 1808 went to the Caribbean and Brazil. The reason being that sugar plantations were so much more deadly than cotton and particularly tobacco ones. Sugar also was more lucrative, so you had more income to expand aggressively.
 
All Colonial Powers used it, but especially the Portuguese were known to basically buy people and dragged them to the other side of the Continent or to the plantations on Sao Tomé.

Where did the Portuguese get most of their slaves? I've heard that slaver activities in Mozambique played a role in causing the South African Mfecane, though this is contested. Also, did actual Portuguese nationals lead slave raids, or did they pay Africans and Arabs to do it for them?
 
Where did the Portuguese get most of their slaves? I've heard that slaver activities in Mozambique played a role in causing the South African Mfecane, though this is contested. Also, did actual Portuguese nationals lead slave raids, or did they pay Africans and Arabs to do it for them?

From memory, Portuguese contented most of time to let the local slave traders do the job for them. That said, it could happened that if they didn't had enough to make themselves some raids or even to enslave the slave trader at the benefit of the concurrent.

Now, they usually gave a lot of rifles to their "associates", so they actually didn't just wait for the slaves to come to the coast.
 
Brazil outlawed international slave trade in 1850. Abolition came in 1888, and so did the end of the Empire one year later.

A question about it, why if abolition of slavery was one of the main reasons (if not the reason) of why the Empire was abolished, why did the new state didn't re-established it?
 
A question about it, why if abolition of slavery was one of the main reasons (if not the reason) of why the Empire was abolished, why did the new state didn't re-established it?

It wasn't abolition in itself that made the slaveholders become Republican, but the fact that they didn't receive any compensation or there was no plan to replace the manpower that left the farms after the slaves were freed. And when the Republicans got the power they simply didn't want to spend public money with it too. In fact, the Republican government ordered that all documents regarding possession of slaves should be destroyed, in order to don't give any chance for the slaveholders to seek compensations.
 
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