RT @NMAAHC: #OTD in 1808, legislation was enacted making the transatlantic slave trade illegal on North American soil. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the Transatlantic Slave Trade brought twelve million enslaved Africans to the New World: https://t.co/8FOrIPvGkT #ANationsStory https://t.co/7v8wP17Fvm

#OTD in 1808, legislation was enacted making the transatlantic slave trade illegal on North American soil. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the Transatlantic Slave Trade brought twelve million enslaved Africans to the New World: https://t.co/8FOrIPvGkT #ANationsStory http://pic.twitter.com/7v8wP17Fvm

— Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) January 1, 2018

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