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1 " The "Paz" was an armed slaver flying the American flag. "
― W.E.B. Du Bois , The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
2 " From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done. "
3 " Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802. "
4 " the United States succeeded by State action in prohibiting the slave-trade from 1798 to 1803, in furthering the cause of abolition, and in preventing the fitting out of slave-trade expeditions in United States ports. The country had good cause to congratulate itself. "
