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It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.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 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 meant that ' the proportion of men improving their condition was much less than in any Northern community ; and that the natural resources of the land were strangely unused, or were used with poor economy '

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 in early medieval Europe was so common that the Roman Catholic Church repeatedly prohibited it — or at least the export of Christian slaves to non-Christian lands was prohibited at e. g. the Council of Koblenz ( 922 ), the Council of London ( 1102 ), and the Council of Armagh ( 1171 ).

Slavery is more common when the labour done is relatively simple and thus easy to supervise, such as large scale growing of a single crop.

His doctoral thesis, The Economic Aspects of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and West Indian Slavery, was both a direct attack on the idea that moral and humanitarian motives were the key facts in the victory of British abolitionism, and a covert critique of the idea common in the 1930s, emanating in particular from the pen of Oxford Professor Reginald Coupland, that British imperialism was essentially propelled by humanitarian and benevolent impulses.

Slavery was not common in Sevier County, although there were instances, especially at the large plantations along the French Broad River.

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.

Slavery was once common in Charn, as was human sacrifice.

April 1, 1901, The Washington Post describes Up From Slavery quite plainly: Washington ’ s book is full of practical wisdom and sound common sense.

* Slavery at common law – Joseph Knight's case

Slavery is very common in the Caliphate.

* Oshinsky, David M. Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice.

In October 2007, Medved drew critics ' fire after publishing a controversial column regarding the history of Slavery in the United States, in which he wrote, " No, it's not true that the ' peculiar institution ' featured kind-hearted, paternalistic masters and happy, dancing field-hands, any more than it's true that America displayed unparalleled barbarity or enjoyed disproportionate benefit from kidnapping and exploiting innocent Africans.

As the war continued, both A True Tale of Slavery and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl became more popular among abolitionists, though both books were more popular in England than in the United States.

And in Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery ( 1974 ) he argued that slaves in the Southern states of America had a higher standard of living than the industrial proletariat of the Northern states before the American civil war.

Nearly 100 years after the publication of Up from Slavery, some critics refuse to see this text as anything more than egotism:

In his books, Time on the Cross and Without Consent or Contract: the Rise and Fall of American Slavery, Robert Fogel maintains that slavery was in fact a profitable method of production, especially on bigger plantations growing cotton that fetched high prices in the world market.

Unlike most of the ruling classes in England, he championed the cause of the North, and his pamphlets, especially one entitled Does the Bible sanction American Slavery?

2010 < http :// www. infoplease. com / ce6 / people / A0844662. html >.</ ref > Slavery was finally ended on 1886, but life for many Afro-Cubans was still a struggle especially in Oriente Province.