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It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.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

* Abolition of Slavery Day, also known as Fête des Cafres ( Réunion )

It owes its origins to the radical element of an older Anti-Slavery Society, known as the ' Agency Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions ', which had substantially achieved abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

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.

Akershus has also been a prison, a section of it known as The Slavery () as the prisoners could be rented out for work in the city.

In Ontario, the day is known as Simcoe Day in honour of the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada and the promulgator of the Act Against Slavery ; the Scotiabank Caribbean Cultural Festival, formerly known as Caribana, is held this holiday weekend in Toronto, coinciding with Emancipation Day.

In 1839 William Allen became a founding Committee Member of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave-trade Throughout the World, which is today known as Anti-Slavery International.

Slavery was commonplace in Europe, Africa, and Asia during Martin's reign and was accepted by " almost everyone " with few arguing against it.

Slavery in the Bayou Puerto area was almost nil, as most of the inhabitants existed at the subsistence level.

* Ramsdell, Charles W. " The Natural Limits of Slavery Expansion ", Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 16 ( Sept. 1929 ), 151 – 71, in JSTOR ; says slavery had almost reached its outer limits of growth by 1860, so war was unnecessary to stop further growth.

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

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

Although that work mainly details American culture ( TV, Radio, Sports are almost completely American examples ), and to a lesser extent with European culture ( in Art, Music and Transportation for example ), some sections ( Nations, Wars, Slavery, Voting, and Era & Empires for example ) do have a broad international treatment.

Slavery accounted for roughly every third person in Italy.

Slavery is currently illegal in every country around the world, however, up until the 19th century slavery and ownership of people had existed in one form or another in nearly every society on earth.

:" But a Broom-stick, perhaps you'll say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head ; and pray what is Man, but a Topsy-turvy Creature, his Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational ; His Head where his Heels should be ; groveling on the Earth, and yet with all his Faults, he sets up to be a universal Reformer and Corrector of Abuses, a Remover of Grievances, rakes into every Slut's Corner of Nature, bringing hidden Corruptions to the Light, and raises a mighty Dust where there was none before, sharing deeply all the while, in the very same Pollutions he pretends to sweep away: His last Days are spent in Slavery to Women, and generally the least deserving ; ' till worn to the Stumps, like his Brother Bezom, he's either kicked out of Doors, or made use of to kindle Flames, for others to warm Themselves by.

Slavery was practiced in every ancient culture: Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Roman and Israelite.

Slavery is a feature of Utopian life and it is reported that every household has two slaves.

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Slavery was common then in that region of the world, even among the few more open and democratic societies that existed – e. g., the ancient Greeks.

Slavery was common in many ancient societies, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Israel, ancient China, classical Islamic states, as well as many societies in Africa and the Americas.

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Slavery was an integral part of ancient commerce, taxation, and temple religion.

Slavery in Sudan began in ancient times, and has continued to the present day.

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Slavery in the ancient world, specifically, in Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.

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