Assertion: u.s.'s government | /r/CapableOf | criminalize international slave trade
Facets:
value: in 1808
type: TEMPORAL
value: after 1820
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Although the federal government criminalized the international slave trade in 1808, after 1820, cultivation of the highly profitable cotton crop exploded in the Deep South, and along with it, the slave population.