04/08/2026
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An American Moment, 250 years ago, April 6, 1776. Congress responded to Parliament's actions of December by a trade war, opening American ports to all foreign ships except British vessels and from those countries under British rule or shipping British products.
British wealth from trade was severely cut off. It was also resolved once again by the Continental Congress that no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies. Resolved in part:
Resolved, That any goods, wares, and merchandise, except staves and empty casks, other than shaken or knocked down casks for molasses, may be exported from the thirteen United Colonies, by the inhabitants thereof, and by the people of all such countries as are not subject to the King of Great Britain, to any parts of the world which are not under the dominion of the said King; provided, that no vessel be permitted to export any greater number of shaken or knocked down molasses casks, than the same vessel is capable of carrying when they shall be filled with Molasses.
Resolved, That any goods, wares, and merchandise, except such as are of the growth, production, or manufacture of, or brought from any country under the dominion of the King of Great Britain, and except East India Tea, may be imported from any other parts of the world to the thirteen United Colonies, by the inhabitants thereof, and by the people of all such countries as are not subject to the said King; liable, however, to all such duties and impositions as now are, or may hereafter be laid by any of the said colonies.
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by United States. Continental Congress; Worthington Chauncey Ford, 1904, Vol. IV.
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