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18 U.S.C. § 1588 — Transportation of slaves from United States
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Whoever, being the master or owner or person having charge of any vessel, receives on board any other person with the knowledge or intent that such person is to be carried from any place within the United States to any other place to be held or sold as a slave, or carries away from any place within the United States any such person with the intent that he may be so held or sold as a slave, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
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Whoever, being the master or owner or person having charge of any vessel, receives on board any other person with the knowledge or intent that such person is to be carried from any place within the United States to any other place to be held or sold as a slave, or carries away from any place within the United States any such person with the intent that he may be so held or sold as a slave, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
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**(a)** Whoever holds or returns any person to a condition of peonage, or arrests any person with the intent of placing him in or returning him to a condition of peonage, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If death results from the violation of this section, or if the violation includes kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or the attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, the defendant shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or life, or both.
**(b)** Whoever obstructs, or attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section, shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in subsection (a).
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The term “United States”, as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1589
fines, 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 per-
son 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.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 773; Pub. L.
103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994,
108 Stat. 2147.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 421, 422, 425 (Mar.
4, 1909, ch. 321, §§ 246, 247, 250, 35 Stat. 1138, 1139).
Section consolidates and restores three basic sections
(act May 25, 1820, ch. 113, §§ 4, 5, 3 Stat. 600, 601; act Apr.
20, 1818, ch. 91, § 4, 3 Stat. 451). As reenacted in the Re-
vised Statutes, such sections were extended and broad-
ened beyond such basic acts. The language at the begin-
ning, ‘‘being a citizen or resident of the United States’’,
was inserted from said section 425 of title 18, U.S.C.,
1940 ed., as enacted originally. While the basic provi-
sions of said sections 421 and 422 are thus broadened,
their application as enacted in the 1909 Criminal Code
is narrowed.
Designation in said section 421 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940
ed., of offender as a ‘‘pirate’’ was omitted as unneces-
sary. The punishment provision of section 1582 of this
title (incorporated by reference in said section 425) has
been adopted as consistent with other slave-trade stat-
utes rather than the life-imprisonment penalty con-
tained in said s
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