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The last known survivors who were born into legalized slavery or enslaved prior to the passage of the amendment are listed below. The list also contains the last known survivors in various states which abolished legal slavery prior to 1865. Some birth dates are difficult to verify due to lack of birth documentation for most enslaved individuals.
List of the last surviving American slaves; List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon, George Washington's plantation; List of slave owners; Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom; 1926 Slavery Convention, an international treaty; 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery; Comfort women, sex slaves in WWII; Human trafficking
Anti-Slavery International, works at local, national and international levels to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking , coalition representing partnerships with law enforcement, faith-based communities, non-profit organizations, social service agencies, attorneys and concerned citizens.
Slaves were freed on a large scale in 956 by the Goryeo dynasty. [12] Gwangjong of Goryeo proclaimed the Slave and Land Act (노비안검법, 奴婢按檢法), an act that "deprived nobles of much of their manpower in the form of slaves and purged the old nobility, the meritorious subjects and their offspring and military lineages in great ...
List of last survivors of American slavery; C. ... List of last surviving World War I veterans; List of last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war ...
Slavery was institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, [5] which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution. [6] Slavery was widespread in the ancient world in Europe, Asia, the Middle East ...
List of the last surviving American slaves; Alfred "Teen" Blackburn (died 1951), one of the last surviving enslaved Americans; Cudjoe Lewis (died 1935), one of the last survivors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Eliza Moore (died 1948), one of the last living African Americans proven to have been born into slavery in the United States.
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.