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The International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic (also known as the White Slave convention) [1] is a series of anti–human trafficking treaties, specifically aimed at the illegal trade of white people, the first of which was first negotiated in Paris in 1904. It was one of the first multilateral treaties to address ...
The 1926 Slavery Convention or the Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is an international treaty created under the auspices of the League of Nations and first signed on 25 September 1926. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 9 March 1927, the same day it went into effect. [2]
The sex slave trade in white girls for sexual slavery (concubinage) did not stop, and the British travel writer John Murray described a batch of white slave girls in the Middle East in the 1870s: "Their complexion are sallow, and none of them [sic] are even good looking.
1926 Slavery Convention; Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery; Suppression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf; International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children
She became Ganjavi's wife and the mother of his only son, Mohammad. Through his poems, he expressed his grief at her premature death. It is disputed whether "Afak" (meaning Horizon or Snow White [12]) was her birth name or a nickname. Afanasy Grigoriev (1782–1868), Russian serf and Neoclassical architect.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention. [1] Move your cursor to identify delegates or click the icon to enlarge. The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840. [2] It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge.