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  2. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Last remaining seigneurial privileges over peasants abolished. [84] 1791 Poland-Lithuania: The Constitution of May 3, 1791 introduced elements of political equality between townspeople and nobility, and placed the peasants under the protection of the government; thus, it mitigated the worst abuses of serfdom. 1791 France

  3. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The border states of Maryland (November 1864) [16] and Missouri (January 1865), [17] and the Union-occupied Confederate state, Tennessee (January 1865), [18] all abolished slavery prior to the end of the Civil War, as did the new state of West Virginia (February 1865), [19] which had separated from Virginia in 1863 over the issue of slavery.

  4. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, issues the Serfdom Patent of 1781, to abolish serfdom throughout the Habsburg lands. 1791 (United States) Philadelphia carpenters conduct first strike in the building trades in the United States. [1] 1792 (United States) Philadelphia has first local union in the United States organized to conduct collective ...

  5. History of serfdom - Wikipedia

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    End of serfdom: a German „Freilassungsbrief“ (Letter for the End of a serfdom) from 1762. In German history the emancipation of the serfs came between 1770 and 1830, with the nobility in Schleswig being the first to agree to do so in 1797, followed by the signing of the royal and political leaders of Denmark and Germany in 1804. [12]

  6. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically ...

  7. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The proportion of free blacks among the black population in the Upper South rose from less than 1 percent in 1792 to more than 10 percent by 1810. [101] In Delaware, nearly 75 percent of black people were free by 1810. [129] In the United States as a whole, the number of free blacks reached 186,446, or 13.5 percent of all black people by 1810 ...

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  9. Serfdom - Wikipedia

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    The first steps towards abolition of serfdom were enacted in the Constitution of 3 May 1791, and it was essentially eliminated by the Połaniec Manifesto. However, these reforms were partly nullified by the partition of Poland. Frederick the Great had abolished serfdom in the territories he gained from the first partition of Poland.