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It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.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 not unknown in early New England, where slaves were sometimes sold on the town green in New Haven.

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

Slavery is not unknown in the Kingdom, but is mostly used for criminals.

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 ).

Lincoln urged the governor of Georgia to remove Confederate troops and " ratify this Constitutional Amendment prospectively, so as to take effect — say in five years ... Slavery is doomed.

The highlights of Brougham's tenure was the passing of the 1832 Reform Act, of which he was a staunch supporter, and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, the cause to which he had been devoted to for so many years.

* 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.

Just as Mastership has its being relative to Slavery, so mastership in our world has its being relative to slavery in our world.

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 was so profitable before 1860 that it absorbed available capital and repelled Northern investors, but now the time for industrialization was at hand.

His Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 ( 1846 ) exercised considerable influence upon Abraham Lincoln, and in this book appears the sentence, which, as rephrased by Lincoln, was widely quoted: " If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong — if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong — nothing is wrong.

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

In June 1992, Clinton responded both to that quotation and to something Souljah had said in the music video of her song “ The Final Solution: Slavery ’ s back in Effect ” (" If there are any good white people, I haven't met them ") while giving a speech to Jesse Jackson Sr .' s Rainbow Coalition, saying, “ If you took the words ‘ white ’ and ‘ black ,’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech .”

According to Kevin Bales, in Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy ( 1999 ), there are now an estimated 27 million slaves in the world.

:" 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 long gone, but the blacks were still there and they had a role in the New South.

I imagine there was titillation involved, too: ‘ Tell us what it's like to be a slave .’ The same continued into the 20th century: ‘ Tell us what it's like to be a Negro .’ ‘ Up From Slavery ,’ by Booker T. Washington, arrived on the scene, but Richard Wright's " Black Boy " really did the trick.

At an African American Fourth of July celebration at Louisville ’ s camp — one that followed a parade through the city streets, including some fifteen hundred armed black and white soldiers and band — Palmer, arriving in a gilded circus chariot, told an estimated twenty thousand attendees, most of whom he had already been assured believed the general was there to declare them free ( and who he claimed later he set out to inform otherwise ), “ My countrymen, you are free, and while I command in this department the military forces of the United States will defend your right to freedom .” That one of its circuit courts was soon to strike down Congress ’ s act of March 3, 1865, liberating black soldiers ’ dependants — some 72, 045 individuals, or by one USCT officer ’ s estimate, “ wo and one half persons freed, for each Colored Soldier enlisted in the State of Kentucky ” and two-thirds of the state ’ s slaves — only fueled the general ’ s intent to cure the state ’ s white residents of “ Negrophobia in its worst form .” “ Slavery is dead in Kentucky ,” he crowed to his wife in October 1865, “ and my Mission is accomplished .” He was soon met with an indictment by Louisville ’ s grand jury for aiding fugitive slaves and a wave of lawsuits from dispossessed Kentucky slaveholders.

Slavery was abolished, but there was full compensation for the slave owners ; ( thus neither former slaves nor masters suffered economically ).

* Act Against Slavery, an act in Upper Canada that ended slavery there in 1793.

He taught there through 1941, when his first book was published, Business and Slavery: The New York Merchants and the Irrepressible Conflict.