Slavery is currently illegal in every country around the world, however, up until the 19th century slavery and ownership of people had existed in one form or another in nearly every society on earth.

Slavery has existed, in one form or another, through the whole of recorded human history — as have, in various periods, movements to free large or distinct groups of slaves.

In the United States, The Action Group to End Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery is a coalition of NGOs, foundations and corporations working to develop a policy agenda for abolishing slavery and human trafficking.

It undertakes graduate research in the field of slavery and human rights and offers an MA in Slavery Studies.

Slavery was once common in Charn, as was human sacrifice.

* Slavery is a very disagreeable fact in human history, not just American history.

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 ''.

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

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It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.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

The slaves were freed and brought aboard the Victoire, Misson declaring that " the Trading for those of our own Species, cou'd never be agreeable to the Eyes of divine Justice: That no Man had Power of Liberty of another " and that " he had not exempted his Neck from the galling Yoak of Slavery, and asserted his own Liberty, to enslave others.

The Liberi-" Enemies to Slavery ," aimed to boost their numbers by capturing another slave ship.

Slavery for a doam ( a certain period of time ) shall be suffered by those who steal away the women of the headmen ; by him who keep ill-tempered dogs that bite the headmen ; by him who burns the fields of another.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

* 1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.

Slavery in Gone with the Wind is a backdrop to a story that is essentially about other things.

* 1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State.

* 1793 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.

* 1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile.

Slavery is still said to exist in Mauritania, some 100 years after slavery officially ended in the West and since it was officially abolished in the country in 1981.

* 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.

* 1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.

* 1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.

Slavery per se is not sin.

* 1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.

Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations, as slavery is a system of social stratification.

Slavery is more common when the labour done is relatively simple and thus easy to supervise, such as large scale growing of a single crop.

* 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

* December 20 – Slavery is abolished in Réunion.