From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jun 6 14:11:42 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k56KBgjb027943; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:11:42 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k56KBdjB018075 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:11:39 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k56Ha8FI001661 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:36:08 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k56Ha8Hj001660 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:36:08 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k56FYXFI001398 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:34:33 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k56I9sxH029901 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:09:54 -0600 X-Envelope-From: rchooverjr@comcast.net Tue Jun 6 12:09:53 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k56I9rjb029874 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:09:53 -0600 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k56I9nxp020116 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:09:50 -0600 Received: from rmailcenter79.comcast.net ([204.127.197.179]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <20060606180944m1300jffiee>; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 18:09:44 +0000 Received: from [24.99.185.233] by rmailcenter79.comcast.net; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:09:44 +0000 From: rchooverjr@comcast.net To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:09:44 +0000 Message-Id: <060620061809.15068.4485C4E7000C2BD800003ADC22007610649D069D0A900101080C9D@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Apr 11 2006) X-Authenticated-Sender: cmNob292ZXJqckBjb21jYXN0Lm5ldA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Slave Trade after 1808 Carol, To the best of my knowledge, and from what I have ready / studied on the WBTS/ACW Yahoo groups is that, although illegal, there was a very little, but still occurring, importation of slaves. So it is very unlikely, but slightly possible, that she came frrom Africa. You brought up a very interesting thought though about slaves coming over from Carribean locations. Even though, reading the law of 1807 via your links and to the best of my knowledge, it appears that ALL importation of anyone to be sold slaves was to be prohibited. I will have to check it out with my Yahoo groups and see what somebody else may know about this. Is it possible that she was already a slave owned by someone moving into this country? Reading the law from your links, I cannot really tell. You would have to be a lawyer to interpret it. Would it be even legal to do so? I am not aware of any such cases but I think it would be another 'Dred Scott' type of decision. An interesting aside to the slave trade is that the slave ships were predominately owned by New Englanders. Deo Vindice Bob Hoover Jr (ps: Many thanks for the excellent job you do with the Civil War Unit Files!!!) > ------------------------------ > > X-Message: #2 > Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:33:59 -0400 > From: Carol Botteron > Subject: Importation of Africans After 1808? > > A U.S. law passed in 1807 forbade the importation of slaves after > January 1, 1808. > > Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade > http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html > Scroll down to 1807. > > How strictly was this ban enforced? Were captive Africans brought > to the US as late as 1848? > > A friend's family history traces one line to an African woman who > was taken to Charleston, SC, in March 1848. Is this possible? > > I'm wondering if the year could be wrong (despite the specific > date) or whether she could have been brought from somewhere else, > possibly in the Caribbean. > > Any help or suggestions welcome. adTHANKSvance! > > Carol Botteron > Maintainer, Civil War Units File > > ------------------------------ Just a couplle of thoughts. If you receive your messages in Digest form, like I do do please change the topic when you reply to a particular question to reflect which one you are responding to. Unfortunety, most e-mail programs simply make the subject to be re: the particular roots digest number you are replying to. I would also like to request/suggest deleting all of the other information in the digest that does not apply to your response. This will be greatly appreciated by those with dial-up or limited bandwidth and everyone else reading them. Thanks in advance for your consideration. Bob Hoover