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Slavery abolished in the country by José María Urvina. [135] Lagos: Reduction of Lagos: The British capture the city of Lagos and replace King Kosoko with Akitoye because of the former's refusal to ban the slave trade. 1852: Hawaii: 1852 Constitution officially declared slavery illegal. [136] United Kingdom Lagos
[149] Upper Canada passed the Act Against Slavery in 1793, one of the earliest anti-slavery acts in the world. [150] The institution was formally banned throughout most of the British Empire, including the Canadas in 1834, after the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 in the British parliament.
Mauritania was the last country to officially abolish slavery, with a presidential decree in 1981. [1] Today, child and adult slavery and forced labour are illegal in almost all countries, as well as being against international law, but human trafficking for labour and for sexual bondage continues to affect tens of millions of adults and children.
After the United States was founded in 1776, the country split into slave states (states permitting slavery) and free states (states prohibiting slavery). Slavery became concentrated in the Southern United States. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807 banned the Atlantic slave trade, but not the domestic slave trade or slavery itself.
Louisiana – much of which had been under Union control since 1862 – abolished slavery through a new state constitution approved by voters September 5, 1864. [45] The border states of Maryland (November 1, 1864) [46] and Missouri (January 11, 1865) [47] abolished slavery before the war's end. The Union-occupied state of Tennessee abolished ...
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands apologized Saturday for his country's role in slavery and asked for forgiveness during a historic speech greeted by cheers and whoops at an event to ...
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition was first celebrated in a number of countries, in particular in Haiti on 23 August 1998, and Senegal on 23 August 1999. A number of cultural events and debates were organized.
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