* Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time ( British West Indies ):

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 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.

Following the Compromise of 1850, the sale of slaves was outlawed within Washington D. C. Slavery in the District of Columbia ended in 1862 and nearly 3, 000 slaves were offered a compensation.

2010 < http :// www. infoplease. com / ce6 / people / A0844662. html >.</ ref > Slavery was finally ended on 1886, but life for many Afro-Cubans was still a struggle especially in Oriente Province.

Slavery in the United States officially ended after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in late 1865.

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1834.

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1834, and thus also in Canada.

* Act Against Slavery, an act in Upper Canada that ended slavery there in 1793.

Slavery at Chatham ended in 1865 after the Civil War, and passage of the constitutional amendment abolishing the institution.

Slavery was ended in 1834.

( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.

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 less common on the Cayman Islands than in many other parts of the Caribbean, resulting in a more even division of African and European ancestry.

Douglass ' change of position on the Constitution was one of the most notable incidents of the division in the abolitionist movement after the publication of Spooner's book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery in 1846.

Slavery was abolished on the island on 28 May 1848 at the initiative of Victor Schoelcher.

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 ).

These included the Disarmament Commission, the Health Organization, the International Labour Organization ( ILO ), the Mandates Commission, the International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation ( precursor to UNESCO ), the Permanent Central Opium Board, the Commission for Refugees, and the Slavery Commission.

" Slavery would be abolished in the District of Columbia on April 18, 1862.

# Managing the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations and United Nations Voluntary Fund for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People.

In his treatise " An Argument on the Ethical Position of Slavery ," he wrote:

* Walter Rodney, " African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave Trade ".

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

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.

In his books, Time on the Cross and Without Consent or Contract: the Rise and Fall of American Slavery, Robert Fogel maintains that slavery was in fact a profitable method of production, especially on bigger plantations growing cotton that fetched high prices in the world market.

* C. Peter Ripley, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone, Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation ( 1993 )

When Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, was published in 1901, it became a bestseller and had a major impact on the African American community, its friends and allies.

In 1781, Condorcet wrote a pamphlet, Reflections on Negro Slavery, in which he denounced slavery.

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

The Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada on July 9, 1793.

* Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

* The primary source of material on Herberstein is Marshall Poe's publications, particularly A People Born To Slavery ': Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography ( Cornell UP ).

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.

Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007 It was already abolished in 1980 though it was still affecting the descendants of black Africans abducted into slavery before generations, who live now in Mauritania as " black Moors " or haratin and who partially still serve the " white Moors ", or bidhan ( the name means literally white-skinned people ), as slaves.

Slavery in Mauritania was criminalized in August 2007.

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

* The Popes and Slavery Father Joel S Panzer, The Church In History Centre, 22 April 2008, retrieved 9 August 2009

* August 9 – Iron Maiden kicks off the World Slavery Tour in Warsaw, Poland, with shows in Hungary and Yugoslavia soon to follow.

On August 26, 1852, Sumner, despite strenuous efforts to dissuade him, delivered his first major speech, titled with a popular abolitionist motto: " Freedom National ; Slavery Sectional ".

* Making Amends Debate Continues Over Reparations for U. S. Slavery – National Public Radio, August 27, 2001.

Slavery remained legal, however, until the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Act finally abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire effective August 1, 1834.

The Society also sponsored mass mobilizations such as yearly anti-slavery conventions and celebrations of July 4 or the Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies, August 1.

Slavery was officially abolished in most of the British Empire on 1 August 1834.

* " The Popes and Slavery ", Father Joel S Panzer, The Church In History Centre, 22 April 2008, retrieved 9 August 2009