The Slave Trade Act banned the trade without enforcement provisions.

Evidence

After years of apologizing for American slavery, Jefferson probably finally felt good about responding to Henri Gregoire. He was in a better position now to write to the famed abolitionist. In his Annual Message to Congress three years earlier, Jefferson had condemned the “violations of human rights” enabled by the slave trade and urged Congress to abolish it. Congress followed his lead in 1807, after a contentious debate over how illegal slave traders would be punished. Traders, they decided, would be fined under the Slave Trade Act of 1807. But Congress did nothing to ensure the act’s enforcement. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 359

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention banned the slave trade but not slavery itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 658; The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian treaty punished traders but not buyers of slaves; The 1877 Convention abolished slave trade but not slavery itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 658 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention banned the slave trade but not slavery itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 658; The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian treaty punished traders but not buyers of slaves; The 1877 Convention abolished slave trade but not slavery itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 658 (+1 more)