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  2. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    The Stoics produced the first condemnation of slavery recorded in history. [19] During the 8th and the 7th centuries BC, in the course of the two Messenian Wars, the Spartans reduced an entire population to a pseudo-slavery called helotry. [293] According to Herodotus (IX, 28–29), helots were seven times as numerous as Spartans.

  3. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    Mauritania was the last country in the world to officially ban slavery, in 1981, [7] with legal prosecution of slaveholders established in 2007. [8] However, in 2019, approximately 40 million people, of whom 26% were children, were still enslaved throughout the world despite slavery being illegal.

  4. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Slavery Was a Global Phenomenon - AOL

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    "The Arabs were history's premier slave traders. Muslims took so many blonde slaves out of the [Slavic] region, they gave the world the name 'Slav,' [for] 'slave,' to the global slave population."

  6. White slavery - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-19th century, the term 'white slavery' was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the Barbary slave trade in North Africa. History The phrase "white slavery" was used by Charles Sumner in 1847 to describe the slavery of Christians throughout the Barbary States and primarily in Algiers , the capital of Ottoman ...

  7. Abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    Modern-day abolitionists have emerged over the last several years, as awareness of slavery around the world has grown, with groups such as Anti-Slavery International, the American Anti-Slavery Group, International Justice Mission, and Free the Slaves working to rid the world of slavery. [113]

  8. Where does slavery still exist in 2014? - AOL

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    Slavery is still a very real and widespread problem. The slavery activity is often referred to as 'trafficking in persons' and is commonly measured by the global slavery index (GSI).

  9. What the US can learn from Africa about slavery reparations - AOL

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    The measure, H.R. 40, would establish a 15-person commission to offer a “national apology” for slavery, study its long-term effects and submit recommendations to Congress on how to compensate Afri