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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?
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