Article I Section 9 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution
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Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution is the provision that allowed Congress to prohibit the importation of enslaved people after 1808, thereby providing the constitutional foundation for later federal bans on the transatlantic slave trade.
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United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807
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