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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1585. Seizure, detention, transportation or sale of slaves
Whoever, being a citizen or resident of the United States and a
member of the crew or ship's company of any foreign vessel engaged
in the slave trade, or whoever, being of the crew or ship's company
of any vessel owned in whole or in part, or navigated for, or in
behalf of, any citizen of the United States, lands from such
vessel, and on any foreign shore seizes any person with intent to
make that person a slave, or decoys, or forcibly brings, carries,
receives, confines, detains or transports any person as a slave on
board such vessel, or, on board such vessel, offers or attempts to
sell any such person as a slave, or on the high seas or anywhere on
tide water, transfers or delivers to any other vessel any such
person with intent to make such person a slave, or lands or
delivers on shore from such vessel any person with intent to sell,
or having previously sold, such person as a slave, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
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