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It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.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 was also important as captives were forced to work to provide provisions and weapons.

For instance, beginning in 2005 with Slavery and the Making of New York, 1600s-1827, it mounted the first exhibition ever in New York City on the important but little known role of slavery in the city's economy and history.

Initially Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life was heralded by the black community as an important and positive contribution, but subsequently the comparison of black slavery and Nazi concentration camps was considered offensive by many descendants of both oppressed groups.

Slavery was an important part of Ottoman society.

He also studied brain physiology in monkeys and even adventured himself into sociology, writing in 1881 an important book, one of the earliest sociological analyses published about the country, " Slavery in Brazil ".

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

Slavery existed in the Americas, prior to the arrival of Europeans, as the Natives often captured and held other tribes ' members as captives.

Barnes was the author of several other works, including Scriptural Views of Slavery ( 1846 ) and The Way of Salvation ( 1863 ).

The population of Ribeirão Preto includes, amongst other groups, descendents of Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese immigrants who were attracted to the region because of the coffee agriculture, right after the Abolition of Slavery in 1888, when immigrants were granted lands, after being indentured workers.

Slavery had been widespread in the British empire, but social and political factors resulted in its being outlawed in 1834 ; within a few decades other European nations had outlawed slavery.

Slavery was abolished, and the scions of Maltese nobility were ordered to burn their patents and other written evidence of their pedigrees before the arbre de la liberté that had been hastily erected in St. George's Square, at the centre of Valletta.

The second exhibition was New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War, 1827-1865, ( November 17, 2006 to September 3, 2007 ), which explored the economy before the war and strong business ties to the South, events related to the war such as the New York Draft Riots, and other aspects.

Slavery law included provisions for persons to sue on the basis of being illegally held in slavery, through a free maternal line, or other reasons.

Slavery was less extensive in South Jersey than it was in other parts of New Jersey because of the Quakers ' religious opposition to slavery, and a lower demand for labor.

Slavery was almost unknown there, because the soil and climate were not suited to cotton or any other plantation agriculture.

See Maafa, Atlantic slave trade, Arab slave trade, and Slavery in modern Africa for other discussions.

Up from Slavery is the 1902 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his work to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools — most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama — to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps.

He has also written a number of other books about Garvey, including Marcus Garvey Hero: A First Biography, African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance, Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance, The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey, and The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond.

Hart authored Formation of the Union ( 1892 ), Salmon Portland Chase ( 1899 ), Essentials of American History ( 1905 ), Slavery and Abolition ( 1906 ), and many other books.

Slavery in the New York City area was introduced by the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland about 1626 with the arrival of Paul D ' Angola, Simon Congo, Lewis Guinea, Jan Guinea, and Ascento Angola and six other men — their names denote their place of origin: Angola, the Congo and Guinea.

The first expressions of this academic trend appeared in the claim that " Slavery was a natural feature of Africa, and that Africans sold each other everyday.

* Colonel Tye and other African-American Loyalists are among the subjects of PBS's Slavery and the Making of America.

Working with two other members of the group Korea Church Women United, Kim Hye Won and Kim Sin Sil, Yun created and conducted the " Military Sexual Slavery by Japan on-the-Spot Survey ".