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[[File:W. E. B. Du Bois - Suppression of the African Slave Trade - diagram - legislative history of Act of 1907.jpg|thumb|upright|Diagram by W. E. B. Du Bois for his book "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870" that illustrates the legislative history of the Act of 1807 that banned slave trade, Longmans, 1896.]]
Spears acknowledged an earlier history from
|first1=W. E. B. |last1=Du Bois▼
|title=The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
|location=New York▼
|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.▼
|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.suppressionofafr00dubo/?st=pdf&pdfPage=6
|access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> as one of his primary sources, although their books could not be more different. De Bois based his account on his PhD thesis at Harvard University<ref>{{Cite web
|title=Primary Sources: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade
|date=1 October 2023
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De Bois intended his account to be "a small contribution to the scientific study of slavery and the American Negro". Du Bois kept his account matter of fact, data driven, and almost entirely without emotion, although in her introduction, Saidya Hartman wrote that he later regretted that. Du Bois mainly focused on the political debates about the slave trade in the United States and the various, mostly ineffective, legislative attempts to suppress it.
Each chapter was preceded by a precise list of contents. There were no illustrations except of a diagram that illustrated the legislative history of the Act of 1807 (effective in 1808) which banned the importation of slaves to the United States. He included long quotations from debates. For example, he devoted a full page to quote a speech by [[Peter Early]] a representative from Georgia arguing that African captives brought illegally to the United States after the effective date should sold and not set free. Early concluded that if such law were enacted, "The whole people will rise up against it. Why? Because to enforce it would be to turn loose, in the bosom of the country, firebrands that would consume them." As indicated by the title, his book was primarily restricted to the slave trade to the United States and was far more detailed on the political aspects than Mannix and Cowley.<ref>Du Bois 1896, pp. v, 94, 98-99 & 107.</ref><ref>{{
▲|first1=W. E. B. |last1=Du Bois
▲|title=The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (2nd printing)
▲|date=1904
▲|location=New York
▲|publisher=Longmans
|first1=Keith |last1=Hulett
|title=Peter Early, 1773-1817
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