What statement best describes slave trade in the united states in the beginning of the 1800s?

slavery was not an issue at this time.
slavery was abolished in all states.
slave trade was outlawed, but it still continued illegally.
slavery was illegal, but the government did nothing about it.

The correct answer is C) Slave trade was outlawed, but it continued illegally.

The statement that best describes the slave trade in the United States at the beginning of the 1800s?

Slave trade was outlawed, but it still continued illegally.

Slavery was officially prohibited in the United States. The states of the North practically did not have slavery but the Southern states still enforced them. President Lincoln gave leeway to the Southern States to Reconstruct themselves after the Civil War but they continue with slavey and they even set the black codes to limit the rights of African Americans.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion