The United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves">bans the importation of slaves</a>.<sup about="#mwt170" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-32" id="mwAQ4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQ8">[32]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"><cite about="#mwt167" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFColtonWhelpley1849">Colton, George Hooker; <a href="./James_Davenport_Whelpley" id="mwDc8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Davenport Whelpley">Whelpley, James Davenport</a> (1849). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6OlBAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA565" id="mwDdA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwDdE">The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science</i></a>. Wiley and Putnam. p.<span id="mwDdI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>565.</cite><span about="#mwt167" class="Z3988" id="mwDdM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+American+Review%3A+A+Whig+Journal+of+Politics%2C+Literature%2C+Art%2C+and+Science&amp;rft.pages=565&amp;rft.pub=Wiley+and+Putnam&amp;rft.date=1849&amp;rft.aulast=Colton&amp;rft.aufirst=George+Hooker&amp;rft.au=Whelpley%2C+James+Davenport&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6OlBAQAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA565&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>