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 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It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.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 Poland was forbidden in the 15th century ; in Lithuania, slavery was formally abolished in 1588 ; they were replaced by the second serfdom.

* July 9 Act Against Slavery passed into law, making Upper Canada the first British territory to bring in legislation against slavery, although it does not abolish slavery entirely.

# Slavery would be prohibited in any territory of the United States " now held, or hereafter acquired ," north of latitude 36 degrees, 30 minutes line.

Slavery () existed on the territory of present-day Romania from before the founding of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 13th – 14th century, until it was abolished in stages during the 1840s and 1850s.

Slavery in Poland existed on the territory of Kingdom of Poland during the times of the Piast dynasty.

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

The first Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Slavery was a crucial part of the expansion of agricultural plantations under the Caliphate.

Slavery was ruled in Saint-Barthélemy under the Ordinance concerning the Police of Slaves and free Coloured People dated 30 July 1787, original in French dated 30 June 1787.

Slavery had been banned in all territories under British law since 1838.

His publications include History of an Expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1775, under Major-General Braddock, edited from Original Manuscripts, which was commended by George Grote, the historian, and was described by Washington Irving as “ ably edited, with an admirable introductory memoir ” ( Philadelphia, 1855 ); The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution ( 1857 ); The Journal of the General Meeting of the Cincinnati ( 1858 ); Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Dr. Jonathan Odell, with Introduction and Notes ( Albany, 1860 ); Life and Career of Maj. John André ( Boston, 1861 ); and Les États Confédérés et de l ' esclavage ( The Confederacy and Slavery ; Paris, 1864 ).

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.

Slavery, for instance, was supported by the ius gentium, even though under natural law all are born free ( liberi ).

The majority of men and women who were awarded compensation under the 1833 Abolition Act are listed in a Parliamentary Return, entitled Slavery Abolition Act, which is an account of all moneys awarded by the Commissioners of Slave Compensation in the Parliamentary Papers 1837 – 8 Vol.

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was repealed in its entirety under the Statute Law ( Repeals ) Act 1998.

Slavery was first abolished by the French Republic in 1794, this took effect in all French colonies, except for Martinique and Saint Domingue, which were under British occupation.

Slavery was abolished under the French Revolution were increasingly in evidence in slave unrest.

This objective was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.