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 " by Henry David Thoreau

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 ''.

Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s.

Slavery was gradually phased out of existence in the North and was fading in the border states and urban areas, but expanded in highly profitable cotton states of the Deep South.

Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

Slavery was common in Mecca, and many slaves accepted Islam.

* Slavery was more widespread at Athens than in other Greek cities.

Slavery was introduced to the British colonies in the early 17th century, and enslaved people largely replaced indentured servants as an economic labor force during the 17th century.

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.

Use of modern refining techniques was especially important because the British Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire ( but slavery itself remained legal until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ).

Slavery in China was abolished in 1910.

Slavery was legally abolished in Korea in 1894 but remained extant in reality until 1930.

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

Slavery was abolished in the 1830s.

Slavery was abolished in 1834.

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

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

It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.

Slavery was less common than ransom, especially for prisoners of war ; the large numbers of prisoners taken during raids and battles every year ensured that ransom money flowed freely between the Christian and Muslim states.

Slavery was abolished in 1896, but many of the 500, 000 liberated slaves remained in their former masters ' homes as servants.

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.

Slavery was abolished in 1863, and in 1865 a government regulation for Curaçao was enacted that allowed for some very limited autonomy for the colony.

Slavery in Sudan is a subject that was largely denied by the government in Khartoum and anybody that spoke of it could be arrested or even killed.

Slavery is almost never defended, but it is usually denied as a primary cause of the American Civil War.

Slavery in the United States was a form of slave labor which existed as a legal institution from the early colonial period.

* Apology and Reparations for Slavery – legal articles that argue for and against reparations, compiled by law professor Vernellia R. Randall, University of Dayton.

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 act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself ; slavery on English soil was unsupported in English law and that position was confirmed in Somersett's Case in 1772, but it remained legal in most of the British Empire until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Slavery is legal and widely practised, while judicial punishment is usually draconian.

Slavery in New York was legal until 1827.

Slavery was legal, and was strengthened by the arrival of Loyalist exiles from the American Revolution who brought along their slaves.