On the record
No additional agreements, treaties, or stipulations can commit these States to the prohibition of the African slave trade with more binding efficacy than those they have themselves devised.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Editor's note · Context
Du Bois emphasizes that no external agreements can be more binding than the commitments made by the states themselves regarding the slave trade.
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