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Abolition of Slavery Timeline

  • Haiti abolished slavery

    Haiti abolished slavery
    In 1804 Haiti declares independence and abolishes slavery
  • Slavery Abolished in the British Empire

    Slavery Abolished in the British Empire
    Abolition of the Slave Trade Act abolishes slave trading in British Empire. Ship Captains fined £120 per slave transported.
  • Uruguay abolish slavery

    Uruguay abolish slavery
    Uruguay, before its independence, declares all those born of slaves in their territories are free from that day forward.
  • Slavery abolishes in Santo Domingo

    Slavery abolishes in Santo Domingo
    Abolition of slavery in Santo Domingo. The state of Liberia is founded in West Africa by an American colonisation society to install freed black slaves there.
  • Slavery abolishes in Chile

    Slavery abolishes in Chile
    Abolition of slavery in Chile
  • Slavery abolishes in Bolivia

    Slavery abolishes in Bolivia
    Abolition of slavery in Bolivia.
  • Slavery Abolished in Mexico

    Slavery Abolished in Mexico
    On this day in 1829, the Guerrero Decree, which abolished slavery throughout the Republic of Mexico except in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, was issued by President Vicente R. Guerrero.
  • Slavery Abolishes in Barbados

    Slavery Abolishes in Barbados
    Slavery, abolished in 1834, was followed by a 4-year apprenticeship period during which free men continued to work a 45-hour week without pay in exchange for living in the tiny huts provided by the plantation owners. Freedom from slavery was celebrated in 1838 at the end of the apprenticeship period with over 70,000 Barbadians of African descent taking to the streets with the Barbados folk song:
  • Slavery abolishes in Tunisia

    Slavery abolishes in Tunisia
    Abolition of slavery in Tunisia.
  • Slavery abolishes in Saint Barthelemy

    Slavery abolishes in Saint Barthelemy
    Abolition of slavery in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy
  • Slavery abolishes in Colombia

    Slavery abolishes in Colombia
    Abolition of slavery in Colombia
  • Peru abolishes slavery

    Peru abolishes slavery
    Peru abolishes slavery
  • Venezuela abolishes slavery

    Venezuela abolishes slavery
    Venezuela abolishes slavery
  • United state of America Abolished Slavery

    United state of America Abolished Slavery
    Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
  • Slavery Abolishes in Portugal

    Slavery Abolishes in Portugal
    Portugal abolishes slavery in its colonies
  • Slavery abolishes in Turkey

    Slavery abolishes in Turkey
    Abolition of slavery in Turkey
  • Slavery Abolished in Cuba

    Slavery Abolished in Cuba
    On October 7 1886, slavery was finally abolished in Cuba by a royal decree that also made the patronato illegal.
  • Slavery Abolished in Brazil

    Slavery Abolished in Brazil
    Princess Isabel serving as regent, issued a decree abolishing slavery on May 13, 1888 This essentially did away for the last bastion of slavery, although forced labor cotinued for some time, in the Western Hemishere and ended what remained of the the African slave trade.
  • korea abolishes slavery

    korea abolishes slavery
    Korea officially abolishes slavery, but it survives in practice until 1930.
  • Slavery abolish in Madagascar

    Slavery abolish in Madagascar
    1896: France abolishes slavery in Madagascar
  • Slavery abolishesin Kenya

    Slavery abolishesin Kenya
    Abolition of slavery in Kenya.
  • Slavery abolishes in Nepal

    Slavery abolishes in Nepal
    Nepal abolishes slavery
  • Slavery Abolished in Morocco

    Slavery Abolished in Morocco
    Morocco abolishes slavery.
  • Slavery abolishes in Ethiopia

    Slavery abolishes in Ethiopia
    Italian General Emilio De Bono proclaims slavery to be abolished in the Ethiopian Empire.
  • Slavery abolishes in Bahrain

    Slavery abolishes in Bahrain
    Abolition of slavery in Bahrain.
  • Slavery abolishes in Kuwait

    Slavery abolishes in Kuwait
    1949
    Abolition of slavery in Kuwait. United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
  • Qatar abolishes Slavery

    Qatar abolishes Slavery
    Qatar abolishes slavery.
  • Slavery abolished in Yemen

    Slavery abolished in Yemen
    Yemen abolishes slavery.
  • Slavery abolish in Saudi Arabia

    Slavery abolish in Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery
  • Slavery abolished in Jamica

    Slavery abolished in Jamica
    August 6,1962 Slavery was abolished inJamaica and Jamaica became an Independent Nation.