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Philippines: Slavery abolished by royal decree. [38] 1588: Lithuania: The Third Statute of Lithuania abolishes slavery. [39] 1590 Japan: Toyotomi Hideyoshi bans slavery except as punishment for criminals. [40] 1595 Portugal: Trade of Chinese slaves banned. [41] 1602 England
The first documented European contact with the Philippines was made in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan in his circumnavigation expedition, [1] during which he was killed in the Battle of Mactan. Forty-four years later, a Spanish expedition led by Miguel López de Legazpi left modern Mexico and began the Spanish conquest of the Philippines in the ...
Medieval Europe. Ancillae; Black Sea slave trade ... and was extended in 1956 with the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, ... (1982), Philippines ...
The position of the church was to condemn the slavery of Christians, but slavery was regarded as an old established and necessary institution which supplied Europe with the necessary workforce. In the 16th century, African slaves had replaced almost all other ethnicities and religious enslaved groups in Europe. [ 345 ]
Spanish slavery was introduced to the Philippines through the encomienda system which was instituted throughout the Indies by Nicolás de Ovando, governor of the Indies from 1502 to 1509. This system rewarded the Spanish conquerors with forced labor from the native peoples.
It was one of the reforms representing the process of official abolition of slavery in the Ottoman Empire, including the Firman of 1830, Disestablishment of the Istanbul Slave Market (1847), Suppression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf (1847), the Prohibition of the Circassian and Georgian slave trade (1854–1855), Prohibition of the Black Slave Trade (1857), and the Anglo-Ottoman ...
Based on the tribute counts, the total founding population of Spanish-Philippines was 667,612 people, [241] of which: 20,000 were Chinese migrant traders, [242] 15,600 were Latino soldier-colonists sent from Peru and Mexico (In the 1600s), [243] Immigrants included 3,000 Japanese residents, [244] and 600 pure Spaniards from Europe. [245]
The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...