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 ''.

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It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.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

* 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.

* 1833: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire

* 1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State.

* 1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile.

* 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.

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

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

* 1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.

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 was abolished in the British Empire in 1834.

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

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 in what now comprises Canada existed into the 1830s, when slavery was officially abolished.

By the 1830s, Letters on Slavery had become standard reading for abolitionists all over the United States.

Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660 – 1810, Yale University Press.

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

* From Slavery to Freedom.

Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution.

* Walker, Daniel E. No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans U. of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Slavery permitted slaveowners to have substantial free time, and enabled participation in public life.

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.