Talk:Slave Trade Act of 1794

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Primary Reference Needs to be Replaced (Dubious Remark)[edit]

The reference used is an internal reference to Wikipedia (United States Statutes at Large) explaining the legal code source that is available to download regarding US laws. It points to another place in Wikipedia which points to another place, which you have to download and then you have to find within this 70 MB file... The reference needs to be changed because it is useless... A place, to a place, to a place, Oh, no.... But wait... Download first, then find it in the document... Stevenmitchell (talk) 17:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First, read WP:DEADLINK so you can easily fix the issue next time. As to dubious, see Wikipedia:Disputed statement which is where the template you used takes you. As in are you questioning the source as a proper source, as in is the author/publisher not considered reliable (going by above, that is not the issue, thus the template was improperly used)? As to your actual issue with the source, it has to do with your misunderstanding of citations and referencing on Wikipedia. The goal is so that someone (not necesarily you) can verify the information, and here, anyone who has completed the first month of law school, worked in a law office, or is a paralegal could easily find the source using the legal citation given. The internal link to the statues at large is simply a link to give the reader more information on the source used, not a link to the source used. Please note that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, and thus anytime you see an internal link in a citation it should only be there to give further information to the reader on the source, not an actual link to the source used, such as when you see a newspaper title linked in the references section. Some people prefer this so that they can judge the reliability of the source. But again, it is not an actual link to the source, the citation is just that, a citation (information give so people can look up the info themselves). In general see Wikipedia:Citing sources, particularly the part on "convenience links" and the see also section. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ganges Africans[edit]

A very interesting application of this law is the case of the so-called Ganges Africans, slaves on the US-owned ships Prudent and Phoebe that were captured for illegal slave trading by the U.S. Navy sloop Ganges while they were en route to Cuba. They were brought to Philadelphia, where the Pennsylvania Abolition Society intervened on their behalf and arranged for the survivors (although nominally free) to be bound out as indentured servants to white residents of Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. Adults were bound out for four years, while children were bound out until adulthood. Each of the survivors was given the surname Ganges, and while many were given Anglicized forenames, others retained their African names.

http://www.ushistory.org/laz/news/pl1105.htm

http://www.ushistory.org/laz/news/mlt0205.htm

The original records relating to this are housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers.

The Historical Society of PA also allows non-commercial publication of their material under a Creative Commons license, so it may be possible to use an image on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aquetong (talk • contribs) 03:04, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]