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In 1804 Haiti declares independence and abolishes slavery
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Abolition of the Slave Trade Act abolishes slave trading in British Empire. Ship Captains fined £120 per slave transported.
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Uruguay, before its independence, declares all those born of slaves in their territories are free from that day forward.
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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.
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Abolition of slavery in Chile
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Abolition of slavery in Bolivia.
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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.
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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:
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Abolition of slavery in Tunisia.
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Abolition of slavery in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy
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Abolition of slavery in Colombia
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Peru abolishes slavery
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Venezuela abolishes slavery
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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.".
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Portugal abolishes slavery in its colonies
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Abolition of slavery in Turkey
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On October 7 1886, slavery was finally abolished in Cuba by a royal decree that also made the patronato illegal.
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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.
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Korea officially abolishes slavery, but it survives in practice until 1930.
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1896: France abolishes slavery in Madagascar
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Abolition of slavery in Kenya.
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Nepal abolishes slavery
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Morocco abolishes slavery.
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Italian General Emilio De Bono proclaims slavery to be abolished in the Ethiopian Empire.
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Abolition of slavery in Bahrain.
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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.
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Yemen abolishes slavery.
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Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery
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August 6,1962 Slavery was abolished inJamaica and Jamaica became an Independent Nation.
