Continental Association

The Continental Association was a trade embargo implemented by the Continental Congress in 1774 against Britain with the goal of increasing pressure to address colonial grievances. One main focus was the Intolerable Acts, which the colonists sought to repeal.

Among other things, the Association contained a clause banning all trade with ships transporting slaves.[1]

## Signers[edit]

Connecticut | Georgia | Maryland | Massachusetts | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Virginia

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* Eliphalet Dyer
* Roger Sherman
* Silas Deane

* Caesar Rodney
* Thomas McKean
* George Read

* Matthew Tilghman
* Thomas Johnson
* William Paca
* Samuel Chase

* Samuel Adams
* Thomas Cushing
* John Adams
* Robert Treat Paine

* John Sullivan
* Nathaniel Folsom

* James Kinsey
* William Livingston
* Stephen Crane
* Richard Smith
* John De Hart

* Isaac Low
* John Alsop
* John Jay
* James Duane
* Philip Livingston
* William Floyd
* Henry Wisner
* Simon Boerum

* William Hooper
* Joseph Hewes
* Richard Caswell

* Joseph Galloway
* John Dickinson
* Charles Humphreys
* Thomas Mifflin
* Edward Biddle
* John Morton
* George Ross

* Stephen Hopkins
* Samuel Ward

* Henry Middleton
* Thomas Lynch
* Christopher Gadsden
* John Rutledge
* Edward Rutledge

* Richard Henry Lee
* George Washington
* Patrick Henry
* Richard Bland
* Benjamin Harrison
* Edmund Pendleton

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The Continental Association, October 20, 1774, "2. We will neither import nor purchase, any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it."