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Lorenzo Pignoria publishes De Servis et Eorum apud Veteres Ministeriis, a history of slavery in classical Rome.
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Bermuda colony becomes a Crown possession
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First record of slaves in Bermuda
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King Charles II of England charters the 'Royal Adventurers into Africa ' being the first English state-sponsored slave trading company
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France declares war on Great Britain, commencing the Revolutionary Wars that continues until 1815 adding more implications for the enslaved people.
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In Paris, 'La Convention Nationale déclare que l'Esclavage des Negres dans toutes les Colonies est aboli' ('The National Convention declares that the slavery of the Negroes is abolished in all the colonies'). The Convention's Emancipation Declaration was short lived: Napoleon Bonaparte re-established slavery in France's colonies in 1802.
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Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery.
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The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed. The amendment stated 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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General Assembly of the United Nations adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 4 states: 'No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.'