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Congress passed a less severe law that reopened foreign trade with every country except Britain and France.
American industry itself
The Embargo Act was a law of Banning Trade with all foreign country's, because the British kept impressing (kidnapping) American merchants that were trading with France and Britain while they were at war.
"ograbme" is embargo backward. It is protesting the reviled 1807 embargo act that prevented trade between America and Britain.
The act prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect in 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution.