Why did many Southern slaveholders accept the 1808 ban on the importation of enslaved people into the United States?

- The law raised the value of the people who were already enslaved.

- Slave populations in the South grew through reproduction, so importation was not as necessary there.

- Many enslavers had already committed to gradual emancipation strategies.

- Advancements in technology meant that slaveholders did not need as many people to labor on plantations.