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18 U.S.C. § 1582 — Vessels for slave trade
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Whoever, whether as master, factor, or owner, builds, fits out, equips, loads, or otherwise prepares or sends away any vessel, in any port or place within the United States, or causes such vessel to sail from any such port or place, for the purpose of procuring any person from any foreign kingdom or country to be transported and held, sold, or otherwise disposed of as a slave, or held to service or labor, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
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Whoever, whether as master, factor, or owner, builds, fits out, equips, loads, or otherwise prepares or sends away any vessel, in any port or place within the United States, or causes such vessel to sail from any such port or place, for the purpose of procuring any person from any foreign kingdom or country to be transported and held, sold, or otherwise disposed of as a slave, or held to service or labor, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
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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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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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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1583
Sec.
1593.
Mandatory restitution.
1593A.
Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery,
and trafficking in persons.
1594.
General provisions.
1595.
Civil remedy.
1595A.
Civil injunctions.
1596.
Additional jurisdiction in certain trafficking
offenses.
1597.
Unlawful conduct with respect to immigra-
tion documents.
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
It was felt that further revision of this chapter
should be considered at an opportune time for the same
reasons stated with respect to chapter 81, ‘‘Piracy and
Privateering’’.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Pub. L. 115–393, title II, § 201(b), Dec. 21, 2018, 132
Stat. 5267, added item 1595A.
2013—Pub. L. 113–4, title XII, § 1211(c)(2), Mar. 7, 2013,
127 Stat. 143, added item 1597.
2008—Pub. L. 110–457, title II, §§ 222(d)(2), 223(b), Dec.
23, 2008, 122 Stat. 5070, 5072, added items 1593A and 1596.
2003—Pub. L. 108–193, §§ 4(a)(4)(B), 5(c)(1), Dec. 19, 2003,
117 Stat. 2878, 2879, substituted ‘‘PEONAGE, SLAVERY,
AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS’’ for ‘‘PEONAGE
AND SLAVERY’’ as chapter heading and added item
1595.
2000—Pub. L. 106–386, div. A, § 112(a)(3), Oct. 28, 2000,
114 Stat. 1489, added items 1589 to 1594.
1949—Act May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 36, 63 Stat. 95, sub-
stituted a semicolon for comma after ‘‘Peonage’’ in
item 1581.
§ 1581. Peonage; obstructing enforcement
(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 se
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