Excerpt from A Few Facts Respecting the American Colonization Society, and the Colony at Liberia Public opinion has been silently changing in Britain and America, in regard to this shameful traffic. In the year 1787, a motion was made in Parliament for the abolition of the trade. This motion, though rejected, was renewed for twenty years, till, at length, it was enacted that, after March, 1808, - no Slaves should be imported into the British dominions. In the same year, Congress passed a law prohibiting the farther introduction of Slaves into the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.