Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.

* Slavery in Massachusetts ( 1854 )

In 1854, American author, poet, and political thinker Henry David Thoreau said, in a speech entitled " Slavery in Massachusetts ":

Chapman was a prolific writer in her own right, publishing Right and Wrong in Massachusetts in 1839 and How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery?

Slavery in Massachusetts was denied legal standing.

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America ( Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998 ) p. 306-307

" ( See also: Thoreau's Slavery in Massachusetts which also advances this argument.

Charles Lowell, D. D., wrote in a personal letter eight decades later, “ My father introduced into the Bill of Rights the clause by which Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts ... and when it was adopted, exclaimed: ' Now there is no longer Slavery in Massachusetts, it is abolished and I will render my services as a lawyer gratis to any slave suing for his freedom if it is withheld from him ...' and he did so defend the negro slave against his master under this clause of the constitution which was declared valid by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1783, and since that time Slavery in Mass.

For instance, in an 1847 lecture to the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, Massachusetts, he said, " Were I about to tell you the evils of Slavery, to represent to you the Slave in his lowest degradation, I should wish to take you, one at a time, and whisper it to you.

* Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery – Russia – University of Massachusetts resource

She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.

The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

Slavery everywhere in the United States was outlawed by the post-war ( 1865 ) ratification of the 13th Amendment.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

This was achieved in the British Empire by the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

* Act Against Slavery passed in 1793, leading to the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada by 1810.

It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.

Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a FreesoilerAn 1854 cartoon depicts a giant Free Soil Party | free soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass standing on the Democratic Party ( United States ) | Democratic platform marked " Kansas ", " Cuba " and " Central America " ( referring to accusations that southerners wanted to annex areas in Latin America to expand slavery ).

* Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis 2006: Oxford University Press.

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

Webster helped found the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791, but by the 1830s rejected the new tone among abolitionists that emphasized Americans who tolerated slavery were themselves sinners.

Slavery was commonplace in Europe, Africa, and Asia during Martin's reign and was accepted by " almost everyone " with few arguing against it.

Slavery was abolished by the National Convention in 1794, then reinstated by Bonaparte in 1802.

Slavery was abolished by an Act of Parliament that became law on 1 August 1834.

Slavery in Poland was forbidden in the 15th century ; in Lithuania, slavery was formally abolished in 1588 ; they were replaced by the second serfdom.

Slavery was abolished in British India by the Indian Slavery Act V. of 1843.

The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, Wilberforce also campaigned for abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which he lived to see in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

* April 18 ( Julian calendar ) – The Germantown Quaker Protest Against Slavery is drafted by four Germantown Quakers.

* September 25 – A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolished all types of slavery.

* August 1 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ).

* International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition ( by UNESCO )

* Mayer, Henry All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Henry Wilson, in his History of Slavery, quotes Varnum in the debate on the bill for the government of the Mississippi Territory before the United States House of Representatives in March 1798 as having been very strong and outspoken in his opposition to negro servitude.

In one part of the installation, Ligon created a series of packing crates modeled on the one described by ex-slave Henry " Box " Brown in his " Narrative of Henry Box Brown who escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide.

* Woodson, Lerry Henry: American Negro Slavery in the works of Friederich Strubberg, Friedrich Gerstäcker and Otto Ruppers: A dissertation etc.

Ronnick edited The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey From Slavery to Scholarship which was published in 2005 by Wayne State University Press with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates.

In 1863, he wrote a brilliant refutation of Episcopal Bishop John Henry Hopkins ' book The Bible View of Slavery.

* David Fiske, Solomon Northup: His Life Before and After Slavery ( 2012 ), a book about Northup's life during his years in New York State.

* Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770 – 1823 ( 1999 ); The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture ( 1988 )

* Davis, David Brion, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World Oxford, 2006.

* Libby, David J. Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720 – 1835, U. Press of Mississippi, 2004.

* Davis David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Cornell University Press, 1966.

* 1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis

In June 1992, Clinton responded both to that quotation and to something Souljah had said in the music video of her song “ The Final Solution: Slavery ’ s back in Effect ” (" If there are any good white people, I haven't met them ") while giving a speech to Jesse Jackson Sr .' s Rainbow Coalition, saying, “ If you took the words ‘ white ’ and ‘ black ,’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech .”

* Oshinsky, David M. Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice.

A leading work against reparations is David Horowitz, Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery ( 2002 ).

* Captives: the Gospel of Jesus Christ Meets Modern Day Slavery a 2012 film by David d ' Arville about businessman Marian Noronha's redemption plan to buy the kamaiyas people out from slavery, share the Gospel and provide the means to rehabilitate these communities.

* 1975 – David Brion Davis for The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

" Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies ", in David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clarke Hine, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 ), pp. 193 – 217.

* David M. Oshinsky, " Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice ," On the origins of the penal farm in Mississippi and the preceding convict lease system.