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Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom

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Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom
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Facet ofabolitionism, abolition of slavery Mali niŋ

Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848, 1849, by François Auguste Biard, Palace of Versailles

Abolition of slavery bɛ ni saha yinsi tiŋgbana sunsuuni. Di tooi zooya ka di niŋdi m-doli taba gari yim zuɣu – kamani shɛhira, kamani daba daabiligu karibu tiŋgbani shɛli ni, ni dab'tali karibu tiŋgbana zaa ni. Di zaa daa malila di ni niŋ shɛm mini zalisi din gbubi li.[1]

N.B.: Many of the listed reforms were reversed over succeeding centuries.
Date Jurisdiction Description
590–604Tɛmplet:Country data RomePope Gregory I mɔŋla Jews ka bɛ ku tooi gbubi daba ban be Dolodolo Adiini ni.[2]
7th centuryFranciaQueen Balthild, dab'kurili mini Council of Chalon-sur-Saône (644–655) daa chɔɣim Christians ban nyɛ daba gbahibu. Balthild tooi darila daba Saxon, mini manumits (frees).[3]
741–752Tɛmplet:Country data RomePope Zachary bans the sale of Christian slaves to Muslims, purchases all slaves acquired in the city by Venetian slave traders, and sets them free.
840 Carolingian Empire
Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of Venice
Pactum Lotharii: Venice pledges to neither buy Christian slaves in the Empire, nor sell them to Muslims. Venetian slave traders switch to trading Slavs from the East (Balkan slave trade).
873ChristendomPope John VIII declares the enslavement of fellow Christians a sin and commands their release.[4]
~900Byzantine EmpireEmperor Leo VI the Wise prohibits voluntary self-enslavement and commands that such contracts shall be null and void and punishable by flagellation for both parties to the contract.[5]
956 Goryeo Dynasty (Korea) Slaves were freed on a large scale in 956 by the Goryeo dynasty.[6] 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 numbers".[7]
960Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of VeniceSlave trade banned in the city under the rule of Doge Pietro IV Candiano (Council of Venice).
1080 Norman EnglandWilliam the Conqueror prohibits the sale of any person to "heathens" (non-Christians) as slaves.
1100 NormandySerfdom no longer present.[8]
1102 Norman EnglandThe Council of London bans the slave trade: "Let no one dare hereafter to engage in the infamous business, prevalent in England, of selling men like animals."[9][10]
c. 1160 NorwayThe Gulating bans the sale of house slaves out of the country.[citation needed]
1171Tɛmplet:Country data Lordship of IrelandAll English slaves in the island freed by the Council of Armagh.[10]
1198 FranceTrinitarian Order founded with the purpose of redeeming war captives.
1214KorčulaThe Statute of the Town abolishes slavery.[11][12]Tɛmplet:Better source needed
1218Tɛmplet:Country data Catalonia AragonMercedarians founded in Barcelona with the purpose of ransoming poor Christians enslaved by Muslims.
~1220 Holy Roman EmpireThe Sachsenspiegel, the most influential German code of law from the Middle Ages, condemns slavery as a violation of man's likeness to God.[13]
1245Tɛmplet:Country data Catalonia AragonJames I bans Jews from owning Christian slaves, but allows them to own Muslims and pagans.[14]
1256Tɛmplet:Country data BolognaLiber Paradisus promulgated. Slavery and serfdom abolished, all serfs in the commune are released.
1315 FranceLouis X publishes a decree abolishing slavery and proclaiming that "France signifies freedom", that any slave setting foot on French ground should be freed.[15] However some limited cases of slavery continued until the 17th century in some of France's Mediterranean harbours in Provence, as well as until the 18th century in some of France's overseas territories.[16] Most aspects of serfdom are also eliminated de facto between 1315 and 1318.[17]
1318 France King Philip V abolishes serfdom in his domain.[18]
1335 SwedenSlavery abolished (including Sweden's territory in Finland). However, slaves are not banned entry into the country until 1813.[19] Between 1784 and 1847, slavery was practiced in the Swedish-ruled Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. Sweden never practiced serfdom, except in a few territories it later acquired which were ruled under a local legal code.
1347 PolandThe Statutes of Casimir the Great issued in Wiślica emancipate all non-free people.[20]
1368 Ming DynastyEmperor Hongwu abolished most forms of slavery,[21] limiting even the highest ranks of household to less than 20 household slaves. Later in the dynasty saw a resurgence of debt servitude, primarily in the south, as a result of population growth against the dearth of arable lands, often taking euphemisms like "adoption" to circumvent its still outlawed status.[22]
1416Tɛmplet:Country data RagusaSlavery and slave trade abolished.
1423 Poland King orders to free all Christian slaves.[23]
1435 Canary IslandsPope Eugene IV's Sicut Dudum bans enslavement of baptised Christians, "or those freely seeking baptism" in the Canary Islands on pain of excommunication.[24]
1477Tɛmplet:Country data Crown of Castile CastileIsabella I bans slavery in newly conquered territories.[25]
1480 GaliciaRemnant serfdom abolished by the Catholic Monarchs.[26]
1486Tɛmplet:Country data Crown of Aragon AragonFerdinand II promulgates the Sentence of Guadalupe, abolishing Carolingian-remnant serfdom (remença) in Old Catalonia.
1490Tɛmplet:Country data Crown of Castile CastileAfter a long court case, the Catholic Monarchs order that all La Gomera natives enslaved in the aftermath of the 1488 rebellion must be freed and returned to the island at Conquistador Pedro de Vera's expense. De Vera is also relieved from his post as Governor of Gran Canaria in 1491.[27]
1493Queen Isabella bans the enslavement of Native Americans unless they are hostile or cannibalistic.[25] Native Americans are ruled to be subjects of the Crown. Columbus is preempted from selling Indian captives in Seville and those already sold are tracked, purchased from their buyers and released.


Date Jurisdiction Description
1503Tɛmplet:Country data Crown of Castile CastileNative Americans allowed to travel to Spain only on their own free will.[28]
1512The Laws of Burgos establish limits to the treatment of natives in the Encomienda system.
1518Spanish Empire SpainDecree of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V establishing the importation of African slaves to the Americas, under monopoly of Laurent de Gouvenot, in an attempt to discourage enslavement of Native Americans.
1528Charles V forbids the transportation of Native Americans to Europe, even on their own will, in an effort to curtail their enslavement. Encomiendas are banned from collecting tribute in gold with the reasoning that Natives were selling their children to get it.[29]
1530Outright slavery of Native Americans under any circumstance is banned under the New laws.
1536The Welser family is dispossessed of the Asiento monopoly (granted in 1528) following complaints about their treatment of Native American workers in Venezuela.
1537New WorldPope Paul III forbids slavery of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and any other population to be discovered, establishing their right to freedom and property (Sublimis Deus).[30]
1542Spanish Empire SpainThe New Laws ban slave raiding in the Americas and abolish the slavery of natives, but replace it with other systems of forced labor like the repartimiento. Slavery of Black Africans continues.[16] New limits are imposed to the Encomienda.
1549Encomiendas banned from using forced labor.
1550-1551Valladolid Debate on the innate rights of indigenous peoples of the Americas.
1552Bartolomé de las Casas, "the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there."[31]
1562 Mughal Empire Akbar I restricted enslavement by his soldiery.[32]
1570 PortugalKing Sebastian of Portugal bans the enslavement of Native Americans under Portuguese rule, allowing only the enslavement of hostile ones. This law was highly influenced by the Society of Jesus, which had missionaries in direct contact with Brazilian tribes.
1574Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of EnglandLast remaining serfs emancipated by Elizabeth I.[17]
 PhilippinesSlavery abolished by royal decree.[33]
1588 LithuaniaThe Third Statute of Lithuania abolishes slavery.[34]
1590 JapanToyotomi Hideyoshi bans slavery except as punishment for criminals.[35]
1595 PortugalTrade of Chinese slaves banned.[36]
1602Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of EnglandThe Clifton Star Chamber Case set a precedent, that impressing / enslaving children to serve as actors was illegal.
1609Spanish Empire SpainThe Moriscos, many of whom are serfs, are expelled from Peninsular Spain unless they become slaves voluntarily (known as moros cortados, "cut Moors") However, a large proportion avoid expulsion or manage to return.[37]
1624 PortugalEnslavement of Chinese banned.[38][39]
1648Tɛmplet:Country data Cossack HetmanateThe system of serfdom was partially weakened, a part of serfs were freed. Manors of the Polish szlachta and the Catholic Church were given under the government control.
1649 RussiaThe sale of Russian slaves to Muslims is banned.[40]
1652 Providence PlantationsRoger Williams and Samuel Gorton work to pass legislation abolishing slavery in Providence Plantations, the first attempt of its kind in North America. It does not go into effect.[41]
1660 Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of England Tenures Abolition Act 1660
1677 Maratha EmpireShivaji I banned, freed and stopped import and export of all slaves under his Empire.[42][43][44]
1679Tɛmplet:Country data RussiaFeodor III converts all Russian field slaves into serfs.[45][46]
1683Spanish Empire Spanish ChileSlavery of Mapuche prisoners of war abolished.[47]
1687Spanish Empire Spanish FloridaFugitive slaves from the Thirteen Colonies granted freedom in return for conversion to Catholicism and four years of military service.
1688 PennsylvaniaThe Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery is the first religious petition against African slavery in what would become the United States.


Date Jurisdiction Description
1706Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of EnglandIn Smith v. Browne & Cooper, Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice of England, rules that "as soon as a Negro comes into England, he becomes free. One may be a villein in England, but not a slave."[48][49]
1711–1712 ImeretiSlave trade banned by Mamia I of Imereti.
1712 SpainMoros cortados expelled.[50]
1715 North Carolina
South Carolina
Native American slave trade in the American Southeast reduces with the outbreak of the Yamasee War.
1723Tɛmplet:Country data Russian EmpirePeter the Great converts all house slaves into house serfs, effectively making slavery illegal in Russia.
1723–1730 Qing DynastyThe Yongzheng emancipation seeks to free all slaves to strengthen the autocratic ruler through a kind of social leveling that creates an undifferentiated class of free subjects under the throne. Although these new regulations freed the vast majority of slaves, wealthy families continued to use slave labor into the twentieth century.[51]
1732 GeorgiaProvince established without African slavery in sharp contrast to neighboring colony of Carolina. In 1738, James Oglethorpe warns against changing that policy, which would "occasion the misery of thousands in Africa."[52] Native American slavery is legal throughout Georgia, however, and African slavery is later introduced in 1749.
1738Spain Spanish FloridaFort Mosé, the first legal settlement of free blacks in what is today the United States, is established. Word of the settlement sparks the Stono Rebellion in Carolina the following year.
1746 Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Great Britain Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746
Tenures Abolition Act 1746
1761 PortugalThe Marquis of Pombal bans the importation of slaves to metropolitan Portugal.[53] encouraging instead the trade of African slaves to Brazil.[54][55][56][57]
1766 SpainMuhammad III of Morocco purchases the freedom of all Muslim slaves in Seville, Cádiz, and Barcelona.[58]
1770Tɛmplet:Country data CircassiaThe Circassians of the Abdzakh region started a great revolution in Circassian territory in 1770. Classes such as slaves, nobles and princes were completely abolished. The Abdzakh Revolution coincides with the French Revolution. While many French nobles took refuge in Russia, some of the Circassian nobles took the same path and took refuge in Russia.[59]
1771Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Sardinia Kingdom of SardiniaSerfdom abolished in the lands ruled by the House of Savoy.[60]
1772Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of EnglandSomersett's case rules that no slave can be forcibly removed from England. This case was generally taken at the time to have decided that the condition of slavery did not exist under English law in England and Wales.[61]
1773 PortugalA new decree by the Marquis of Pombal, signed by the king Dom José, emancipates fourth-generation slaves[53] and every child born to an enslaved mother after the decree was published.[62]
1774 East India Company Government of Bengal passed regulations 9 and 10 of 1774, prohibiting the trade in slaves without written deed, and the sale of anyone not already enslaved.[63]
1775 Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Great Britain Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act 1775
United States PennsylvaniaPennsylvania Abolition Society formed in Philadelphia, the first abolition society within the territory that is now the United States of America.
 United StatesAtlantic slave trade banned or suspended in the United Colonies during the Revolutionary War. This was a continuation of the Thirteen Colonies' non-importation agreements against Britain, as an attempt to cut all economic ties with Britain during the war.[64]
1777Portugal MadeiraSlavery abolished.[65]
Tɛmplet:Country data Vermont RepublicThe Constitution of the Vermont Republic partially bans slavery,[65] freeing men over 21 and women older than 18 at the time of its passage.[66] The ban is not strongly enforced.[67][68]
1778Tɛmplet:Country data ScotlandJoseph Knight successfully argues that Scots law cannot support the status of slavery.[69]
1779 British AmericaThe Philipsburg Proclamation frees all slaves who desert the American rebels, regardless of their willingness to fight for the Crown.
1780United States PennsylvaniaAn Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery passed, freeing future children of slaves. Those born prior to the Act remain enslaved for life. The Act becomes a model for other Northern states. Last slaves freed 1847.[70]
1781Tɛmplet:Country data Archduchy of Austria Archduchy of AustriaJoseph II abolishes personal bondage of serfs and allows their freedom of movement with the Serfdom Patent of 1781.
1783Tɛmplet:Country data Russian EmpireSlavery abolished in the recently annexed Crimean Khanate.[71]
MassachusettsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules slavery unconstitutional, a decision based on the 1780 Massachusetts constitution. All slaves are immediately freed.[72]
Tɛmplet:Country data Austrian EmpireJoseph II abolishes slavery in Bukovina.[73]
New HampshireGradual abolition of slavery begins.
British AmericaAfter being settled into by Quakers, Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick becomes the first settlement in British North America to ban slavery, forbidding slave masters from entering.[74]
1784 ConnecticutGradual abolition of slavery, freeing future children of slaves, and later all slaves.[75]
Rhode IslandGradual abolition of slavery begins.
1785Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of HungaryIn response to the Revolt of Horea, Joseph II abolishes personal bondage and allows freedom of movement for peasants in Hungary with the urbarium of 22 August 1785.[76]
1786 New South WalesA policy of completely banning slavery is adopted by governor-designate Arthur Phillip for the soon-to-be established colony.[77]
1787 United StatesThe United States in Congress Assembled passes the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, outlawing any new slavery in the Northwest Territories.
Sierra LeoneFounded by Great Britain as a colony for emancipated slaves.[78]
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Great BritainSociety for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in Great Britain.[65]
1788Sir William Dolben's Act regulating the conditions on British slave ships enacted.
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of France Abolitionist Society of the Friends of the Blacks founded in Paris.
 Denmark Limits imposed to serfdom under the Stavnsbånd system.
1789Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of FranceLast remaining seigneurial privileges over peasants abolished.[79]
1791Tɛmplet:Country data Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Constitution of May 3, 1791 introduced elements of political equality between townspeople and nobility, and placed the peasants under the protection of the government; thus, it mitigated the worst abuses of serfdom.
1791Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of FranceEmancipation of second-generation slaves in the colonies.[58]
1792Tɛmplet:Country data Denmark-NorwayTransatlantic slave trade declared illegal after 1803, though slavery continues in Danish colonies to 1848.[80]
1792United Kingdom Saint HelenaThe importation of slaves to the island of Saint Helena was banned in 1792, but the phased emancipation of over 800 resident slaves did not take place until 1827, which was still some six years before the British parliament passed legislation to ban slavery in the colonies.[81]
1793 Saint-DomingueCommissioner Leger-Felicite Sonthonax abolishes slavery in the northern part of the colony. His colleague Etienne Polverel does the same in the rest of the territory in October.
Tɛmplet:Country data Upper CanadaImportation of slaves banned by the Act Against Slavery.
1794Tɛmplet:Country data French First RepublicSlavery abolished in all French territories and possessions.[82]
 United StatesThe Slave Trade Act bans both American ships from participating in the slave trade and the export of slaves in foreign ships.[64]
Tɛmplet:Country data Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Proclamation of Połaniec, issued during the Kościuszko Uprising, ultimately abolished serfdom in Poland, and granted substantial civil liberties to all peasants.
1798Tɛmplet:Country data French First Republic French MaltaSlavery banned in the islands after their capture by French forces under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte.[83][84]
1799Tɛmplet:Country data New YorkGradual emancipation act freeing the future children of slaves, and all slaves in 1827.[85]
Tɛmplet:Country data ScotlandThe Colliers (Scotland) Act 1799 ends the legal servitude or slavery of coal and salt miners that had been established in 1606.[86]


Date Jurisdiction Description
1800 Joseon State slavery banned in 1800. Private slavery continued until being banned in 1894.
MaltaDespite being in rebellion against the French, the National Congress confirms the validity of Napoleon's 1798 abolition of slavery, and Alexander Ball issues a proclamation to this effect.[84]
 United StatesAmerican citizens banned from investment and employment in the international slave trade in an additional Slave Trade Act.
1802Tɛmplet:Country data French First RepublicNapoleon re-introduces slavery in sugarcane-growing colonies.[87]
United States OhioState constitution abolishes slavery.
1803Tɛmplet:Country data Denmark-NorwayAbolition of Danish participation in the transatlantic slave trade takes effect on 1 January.
1804Tɛmplet:Country data New JerseySlavery abolished.[88]
Tɛmplet:Country data HaitiHaiti declares independence and abolishes slavery.[65]
1805Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandA bill for abolition passes in House of Commons but is rejected in the House of Lords.
1806 United StatesIn a message to Congress, Thomas Jefferson calls for criminalizing the international slave trade, asking Congress to "withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights ... which the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe."
1807International slave trade made a felony in Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves; this act takes effect on 1 January 1808, the earliest date permitted under the Constitution.[89]
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandAbolition of the Slave Trade Act abolishes slave trading throughout the British Empire. Captains fined £100 per slave transported. Patrols sent to the African coast to arrest slaving vessels. The West Africa Squadron (Royal Navy) is established to suppress slave trading; by 1865, nearly 150,000 people freed by anti-slavery operations.[90]
Poland WarsawConstitution abolishes serfdom.[91]
Tɛmplet:Country data PrussiaThe Stein-Hardenberg Reforms abolish serfdom.[91]
United States Michigan TerritoryJudge Augustus Woodward denies the return of two slaves owned by a man in Windsor, Upper Canada. Woodward declares that any man "coming into this Territory is by law of the land a freeman."[92]
1808 United StatesImportation and exportation of slaves made a crime.[93]
1810 New SpainIndependence leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla proclaimed the abolition of slavery three months after the start of the Independence of Mexico from Spain.
1811Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandSlave trading made a felony punishable by transportation for both British subjects and foreigners.
 SpainThe Cortes of Cádiz abolish the last remaining seigneurial rights.[58]
British East India Company The Company issued regulations 10 of 1811, prohibiting the transport of slaves into Company territory, adding to the 1774 restrictions.[63]
 ChileThe First National Congress approves a proposal of Manuel de Salas that declares Freedom of Wombs, freeing the children of slaves born in Chilean territory, regardless of their parents' condition. The slave trade is banned and the slaves who stay for more than six months in Chilean territory are automatically declared freedmen.
1812United Kingdom Malta ProtectorateBritish protectorate authorities issue a proclamation declaring that "negroes cannot be considered as objects of trade" in response to reports of African slaves being imported into Malta from North Africa, despite slavery having previously been abolished on Malta in 1798.[84]
 SpainThe Cortes of Cádiz pass the Spanish Constitution of 1812, giving citizenship and equal rights to all residents in Spain and her territories, excluding slaves. During deliberations, Deputies José Miguel Guridi y Alcocer and Agustín Argüelles unsuccessfully argue for the abolition of slavery.[58]
1813 New SpainIndependence leader José María Morelos y Pavón declares slavery abolished in Mexico in the documents Sentimientos de la Nación.
United ProvincesLaw of Wombs passed by the Assembly of Year XIII. Slaves born after 31 January 1813 will be granted freedom when they are married, or on their 16th birthday for women and 20th for men, and upon their manumission will be given land and tools to work it.[94]
1814 United ProvincesAfter the occupation of Montevideo, all slaves born in modern Uruguayan territory are declared free.
 NetherlandsSlave trade abolished.
1815Tɛmplet:Country data French First RepublicNapoleon abolishes the slave trade.
 PortugalSlave trade banned north of the Equator in return for a £750,000 payment by Britain.[95]
Spain FloridaBritish withdrawing after the War of 1812 leave a fully armed fort in the hands of maroons, escaped slaves and their descendants, and their Seminole allies. Becomes known as Negro Fort.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Portugal
Sweden-Norway
Tɛmplet:Country data Bourbon Restoration
Austria Austria
Tɛmplet:Country data Russia
 Spain
Tɛmplet:Country data Prussia
The Congress of Vienna declares its opposition to the slave trade.[96]
1816 EstoniaSerfdom abolished.
Spain FloridaNegro Fort destroyed in the Battle of Negro Fort by U.S. forces under the command of General Andrew Jackson.
AlgeriaAlgiers bombarded by the British and Dutch navies in an attempt to end North African piracy and slave raiding in the Mediterranean. 3,000 slaves freed.
1817 CourlandSerfdom abolished.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Spain
Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade.[97]
 SpainFerdinand VII signs a cedula banning the importation of slaves in Spanish possessions beginning in 1820,[58] in return for a £400,000 payment from Britain.[95] However, some slaves are still smuggled in after this date. Both slave ownership and internal commerce in slaves remained legal.
VenezuelaSimon Bolivar calls for the abolition of slavery.[58]
Tɛmplet:Country data New York4 July 1827 set as date to free all ex-slaves from indenture.[98]
United ProvincesConstitution supports the abolition of slavery, but does not ban it.[58]
1818Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Portugal
Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade.[99]
Tɛmplet:Country data Bourbon RestorationSlave trade banned.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Netherlands
Bilateral treaty taking additional measures to enforce the 1814 ban on slave trading.[99]
1819 LivoniaSerfdom abolished.
United Kingdom Upper CanadaAttorney-General John Robinson declares all black residents free.
Tɛmplet:Country data HawaiiThe ancient Hawaiian kapu system is abolished during the ʻAi Noa, and with it the distinction between the kauwā slave class and the makaTɛmplet:Okinaāinana (commoners).[100]
1820 United StatesThe Compromise of 1820 bans slavery north of the 36º 30' line; the Act to Protect the Commerce of the United States and Punish the Crime of Piracy is amended to consider the maritime slave trade as piracy, making it punishable with death.
IndianaThe supreme court orders almost all slaves in the state to be freed in Polly v. Lasselle.
 SpainThe 1817 abolition of the slave trade takes effect.[101]
1821Tɛmplet:Country data First Mexican EmpireThe Plan of Iguala frees the slaves born in Mexico.[58]
 United States
 Spain
In accordance with Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, Florida becomes a territory of the United States. A main reason was Spain's inability or unwillingness to capture and return escaped slaves.
PeruAbolition of slave trade and implementation of a plan to gradually end slavery.[58]
Tɛmplet:Country data Gran ColombiaEmancipation for sons and daughters born to slave mothers, program for compensated emancipation set.[102]
1822Tɛmplet:Country data Haiti HaitiJean Pierre Boyer annexes Spanish Haiti and abolishes slavery there.
Liberia LiberiaFounded by the American Colonization Society as a colony for emancipated slaves.
Tɛmplet:Country data Muscat Muscat and Oman
 United Kingdom
First bilateral treaty limiting the slave trade in Zanzibar (Moresby Treaty).
1823 ChileSlavery abolished.[65]
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandThe Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (Anti-Slavery Society) is founded.
GreeceProhibition of slavery is enshrined in the Greek Constitution of 1823, during the Greek War of Independence.[103]
1824 Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Slave Trade Act 1824
 MexicoThe new constitution effectively abolishes slavery.
Tɛmplet:Country data Federal Republic of Central America Central AmericaSlavery abolished.[104]
1825 UruguayImportation of slaves banned.
Tɛmplet:Country data Haiti HaitiFrance, with warships at the ready, demanded Haiti compensate France for its loss of slaves and its slave colony
1827Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sweden-Norway
Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade.[99]
Tɛmplet:Country data New YorkLast vestiges of slavery abolished. Children born between 1799 and 1827 are indentured until age 25 (females) or age 28 (males).[105]
United Kingdom Saint HelenaPhased emancipation of over 800 resident slaves, some six years before the British parliament passed legislation to ban slavery in all colonies.[81]
1829 MexicoLast slaves freed just as the first president of partial African ancestry (Vicente Guerrero) is elected.[65]


Date Jurisdiction Description
1830 Coahuila y TejasMexican President Anastasio Bustamante attempts to implement the abolition of slavery. To circumvent the law, Anglo-Texans declare their slaves "indentured servants for life".[106]
1830Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireThe Firman of 1830 theoretically emancipates all white slaves in the Ottoman Empire.[107]
1830 UruguaySlavery abolished.
1831 BoliviaSlavery abolished.[65]
Tɛmplet:Country data Empire of Brazil BrazilLaw of 7 November 1831, abolishing the maritime slave trade, banning any importation of slaves, and granting freedom to slaves illegally imported into Brazil. The law was seldom enforced prior to 1850, when Brazil, under British pressure, adopted additional legislation to criminalize the importation of slaves.
1832 Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Greece Slavery abolished with independence.
1832 Coahuila y Tejas Anahuac Disturbances: Juan Davis Bradburn, American-born Mexican officer at Anahuac, Texas, confronts slave-owning American settlers, enforcing Mexican abolition of slavery and refusing to hand over two escaped slaves.
1834Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandThe Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire but on a gradual basis over the next six years.[108] Legally frees 700,000 in the West Indies, 20,000 in Mauritius, and 40,000 in South Africa. The exceptions are the territories controlled by the East India Company and Ceylon.[109]
Tɛmplet:Country data July MonarchyFrench Society for the Abolition of Slavery founded in Paris.[110]
1835Tɛmplet:Country data Principality of SerbiaFreedom granted to all slaves in the moment they step on Serb soil.[111]
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Tɛmplet:Country data July Monarchy
Bilateral treaties abolishing the slave trade.[99]
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Denmark
 PeruA decree of Felipe Santiago Salaverry re-legalizes the importation of slaves from other Latin American countries. The line "no slave shall enter Peru without becoming free" is taken out of the Constitution in 1839.[112]
1836 PortugalPrime Minister Sá da Bandeira bans the transatlantic slave trade and the importation and exportation of slaves to or from the Portuguese colonies south of the equator.
1837 SpainSlavery abolished outside of the colonies.[58]
1838Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandMost slaves in the colonies become free after a period of forced apprenticeship following the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (now London Anti-Slavery Society) winds up.
1839Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandThe British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (after several changes, now known as Anti-Slavery International) is founded.
East India CompanyThe Indian indenture system is abolished in territories controlled by the company, but this is reversed in 1842.
Tɛmplet:Country data Papal States Catholic ChurchPope Gregory XVI's In supremo apostolatus resoundingly condemns slavery and the slave trade.
1840Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Venezuela
Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandFirst World Anti-Slavery Convention meets in London.
Tɛmplet:Country data New ZealandTaking slaves banned by Treaty of Waitangi.[113]
1841Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Tɛmplet:Country data July Monarchy
Tɛmplet:Country data Russia
Tɛmplet:Country data Prussia
Tɛmplet:Country data Austrian Empire Austria
Quintuple Treaty agreeing to suppress the slave trade.[65]
 United StatesUnited States v. The Amistad finds that the slaves of La Amistad were illegally enslaved and were legally allowed, as free men, to fight their captors by any means necessary.
1842Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Portugal
Bilateral treaty extending the enforcement of the slave trade ban to Portuguese ships south of the Equator.
 ParaguayLaw for the gradual abolition of slavery passed.[58]
1843 Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Slave Trade Act 1843
East India CompanyThe Indian Slavery Act, 1843, Act V abolishes slavery in territories controlled by the company.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Uruguay
Bilateral treaties abolishing the slave trade.[99]
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Mexico
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 Chile
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bolivia
1844Tɛmplet:Country data MoldaviaMihail Sturdza abolishes slavery in Moldavia.
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Hungary The serfs were given the Right to Property. But until the April Laws, they were subject to different taxes and legal procedures (jus gladii) than burghers.[114]
 ParaguaySlave trade abolished.[58]
 Dominican RepublicDominican Republic declares independence from Haiti; abolition of slavery reinforced.[115]
1845Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland36 Royal Navy ships assigned to the Anti-Slavery Squadron, making it one of the largest fleets in the world.
IllinoisIn Jarrot v. Jarrot, the Illinois Supreme Court frees the last indentured ex-slaves in the state who were born after the Northwest Ordinance.[116]
1846 TunisiaSlavery abolished in Tunisia under Ahmed Bey rule.[117]
1847Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireSuppression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf: slave trade from Africa (via the Persian Gulf route) abolished.[118]
Saint BarthélemyLast slaves freed.[119]
Tɛmplet:Country data PennsylvaniaThe last indentured ex-slaves, born before 1780 (fewer than 100 in the 1840 census[120]) are freed.
Denmark Danish West IndiesRoyal edict ruling the freedom of children born from female slaves and the total abolition of slavery after 12 years. Dissatisfaction causes a slave rebellion in Saint Croix the next year.
1848Hungary HungaryThe April laws completely abolished serfdom in Hungary (excluding Transylvania) and Croatia.
Tɛmplet:Country data Austrian Empire Austria Serfdom abolished.[121][122][123]
Tɛmplet:Country data French Second RepublicSlavery abolished in the colonies. Gabon is founded as a settlement for emancipated slaves.
Denmark Danish West IndiesGovernor Peter von Scholten declares the immediate and total emancipation of all slaves in an attempt to end the slave revolt. For this he is recalled and tried for treason, but the charges are later dropped.[65][119][124]
 DenmarkLast remains of the Stavnsbånd effectively abolished.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Tɛmplet:Country data Muscat Muscat and Oman
Bilateral treaties abolishing the slave trade.[99]
1849Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Tɛmplet:Country data Trucial States
United Kingdom Sierra LeoneThe Royal Navy destroys the slave factory of Lomboko.


Date Jurisdiction Description
1850 United StatesThe Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 requires the return of escaped slaves to their owners regardless of the state they are in.
Tɛmplet:Country data Empire of Brazil BrazilEusébio de Queirós Law (Law 581 of 4 September 1850) criminalizing the maritime slave trade as piracy, and imposing other criminal sanctions on the importation of slaves (already banned in 1831).[125]
1851 Tɛmplet:Country data Empire of Brazil Brazil

 Uruguay

Bilateral treaty of 12 October, Uruguay accepts returning to Brazil the escaped slaves from that country. Brazilians who owned land in Uruguay were allowed to have slaves in their properties.
Taiping Heavenly KingdomSlavery nominally abolished along with opium, gambling, polygamy and foot binding.[126][127][128]
New GranadaSlavery abolished.[102] After years of laws that only purported a partial advancement towards abolition, President José Hilario López pushed Congress to pass total abolition on 21 May. Former owners were compensated with government issued bonds.[129]
 EcuadorSlavery abolished in the country by José María Urvina.[130]
LagosReduction of Lagos: The British capture the city of Lagos and replace King Kosoko with Akitoye because of the former's refusal to ban the slave trade.
1852Tɛmplet:Country data Hawaii Hawaii1852 Constitution officially declared slavery illegal.[131]
 United Kingdom
Lagos
Bilateral treaty banning the slave trade and human sacrifice.
1853Argentine Confederation ArgentinaSlavery abolished with the sanction of a new federal Constitution.[132]
1854 PeruSlavery abolished by Ramón Castilla.[133][65]
Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireThe Firman of 1854 prohibit the Circassian slave trade.[107]
 VenezuelaSlavery abolished.[65][102]
1855Tɛmplet:Country data MoldaviaSlavery abolished.
1856Tɛmplet:Country data Wallachia
1857 United StatesDred Scott v. Sandford rules that black slaves and their descendants cannot gain American citizenship and are not entitled to freedom even if they live in a free state for years.
EgyptFirman of 1857 banning the trade of Black African (Zanj) slaves.[citation needed]
1857Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireThe Firman of 1857 prohibit the African slave trade.[107]
1858 United KingdomBritish government takes direct control of all land owned by the East India Company, making previously East India Company directly managed territory subject to the slavery laws applicable in the rest of the British Empire.
1859Atlantic OceanDefinitive suppression of the transatlantic slave trade.
 United StatesThe Wyandotte Constitution establishes the future state of Kansas as a free state, after four years of armed conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the territory. Southern dominance in the U.S. Senate delays the admission of Kansas as a state until 1861.
Tɛmplet:Country data RussiaKazakhs banned from having slaves, although slavery persists in some areas through the rest of the century.[134]Tɛmplet:Better source needed
1860 United States Last known slave ship to unload illegally on U.S. territory, the Clotilda.
1861Tɛmplet:Country data RussiaThe Emancipation reform of 1861 abolishes serfdom.[135]
 United StatesThe election of Abraham Lincoln leads to the attempted secession of eleven slaveholding states and the American Civil War.
 United Kingdom
British India

Indian Penal Code explicitly prohibits slavery in British administered territory.

1862  United States Congress passes the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, freeing all slaves in the District of Columbia.[136]
 United States
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade (African Slave Trade Treaty Act).[99]
Spain Spanish CubaSlave trade abolished.[65]
 United StatesNathaniel Gordon becomes the only person hanged in U.S. history "for being engaged in the slave trade".
1863 NetherlandsSlavery abolished in the colonies, emancipating 33,000 slaves in Surinam, 12,000 in Curaçao and Dependencies,[137] and an indeterminate number in the East Indies.
 United StatesLincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in Confederate-controlled areas. Most slaves in "border states" are freed by state action, and a separate law frees the slaves in Washington, D.C.
Denmark IcelandExemptions introduced to serfdom under the Vistarband system.
Tɛmplet:Country data Chatham IslandsSlavery abolished.[138]
1864 Congress PolandSerfdom abolished.[139]
1865 United StatesSlavery and involuntary servitude abolished, except as punishment for crime, by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It frees all remaining slaves, about 40,000, in the border slave states that did not secede.[140] Thirty out of thirty-six states vote to ratify it; New Jersey, Delaware, Kentucky, and Mississippi vote against. Mississippi does not officially ratify it until 2013.[141]
Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of TexasJuneteenth: U.S. General Gordon Granger proclaims the end of slavery in Galveston.
 SpainSpanish Abolitionist Society founded in Madrid by Julio Vizcarrondo, José Julián Acosta and Joaquín Sanromá.[58]
1866Tɛmplet:Country data Oklahoma OklahomaSlavery abolished.[142] U.S. government treaties with the Five Tribes that governed the Indian Territory, which previously allied with the Confederacy, required them to abolish slavery for renewed U.S. recognition of their continued independence.
IowaThirteenth Amendment ratified.
Tɛmplet:Country data New Jersey
1867 SpainLaw of Repression and Punishment of the Slave Trade.[58]
 United StatesPeonage Act of 1867, mostly targeting use of Native American peons in New Mexico Territory. Slavery among native tribes in Alaska was abolished after the purchase from Russia in 1867.[143]
1868Spain Spanish CubaCarlos Manuel de Céspedes and other independence leaders free their slaves and proclaim the independence of Cuba, starting the Ten Years War.
1869 PortugalLouis I abolishes slavery in all Portuguese territories and colonies.
 ParaguaySlavery abolished.
1870 SpainAmidst great opposition from the Cuban and Puerto Rican planters, Segismundo Moret drafts a "Law of Free Wombs" that frees children of slaves, slaves older than 65 years, and slaves serving in the Spanish Army, beginning in 1872.[58]
Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of TexasThirteenth Amendment ratified.
1871Tɛmplet:Country data Empire of Brazil BrazilRio Branco Law (Law of Free Birth) declares the children born to slave mothers free.[144]
 Japan Abolition of the han system or Japanese feudalism.
1873 Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Slave Trade Act 1873
Puerto RicoSlavery abolished.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Zanzibar
Madagascar
Triple treaty abolishing the slave trade.[99]
1874Tɛmplet:Country data Gold CoastSlavery abolished.[145]
1877Tɛmplet:Country data Khedivate of Egypt EgyptThe Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention abolishes the slave trade gradually in 1877–1884. This also gradually abolishes slavery itself over the next decades.
1879Bulgaria BulgariaSlavery abolished with independence. The Constitution states that any slave that enters Bulgarian territory is immediately freed.
1880Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireThe Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1880 prohibit the Red Sea slave trade and give the British the right to stop all slave ships in Ottoman waters.[107]
1882Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireA firman emancipates all slaves, white and black.[146]
1884Tɛmplet:Country data CambodiaSlavery abolished.
1885Tɛmplet:Country data Empire of Brazil BrazilSaraiva-Cotegipe Law passed, freeing all slaves over the age of 60 and creating other measures for the gradual abolition of slavery, such as a Manumissions Fund administered by the State.
1886Spain Spanish CubaSlavery abolished.[65]
1888Tɛmplet:Country data Empire of Brazil BrazilSlavery abolished.[147]
1889Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Italy ItalyAn Italian court finds that Josephine Bakhita was never legally enslaved according to Italian, British, or Egyptian law and is a free woman.
1889Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireThe Kanunname of 1889 prohibit the African slavery and slave trade in the Ottoman Empire.[148]
1890Tɛmplet:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 France
Germany Germany
 Portugal
Tɛmplet:Country data Congo Free State Congo
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Italy Italy
 Spain
 Netherlands
 Belgium
Tɛmplet:Country data Russia
Tɛmplet:Country data Austria-Hungary
Sweden-Norway
 Denmark
 United States
Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman Empire
Zanzibar

Persia

Brussels Conference Act – a collection of anti-slavery measures to put an end to the slave trade on land and sea, especially in the Congo Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the East African coast.
1894Tɛmplet:Country data Korean Empire KoreaSlavery abolished, but it survives in practice until 1930.[149]
Denmark IcelandVistarband effectively abolished (but not de jure).
1895Tɛmplet:Country data Taiwan TaiwanTaiwan is annexed by Japan, where slavery has been abolished.
1895 EgyptSlavery abolished.[150]
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of ItalyFirst slaves freed[151]
1896 MadagascarSlavery abolished.
1897 ZanzibarSlavery abolished[152] except in the case of concubines (abolished in 1909[153]).
Tɛmplet:Country data Thailand SiamSlave trade abolished.[154]
Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman Empire BassoraChildren of freedmen issued separate certificates of liberation to avoid enslavement and separation from their parents.[citation needed]
1899France NdzuwaniSlavery abolished.


Date Jurisdiction Description
1900United States GuamSlavery abolished 22 February 1900, by proclamation of Richard P. Leary.[155]
1901Tɛmplet:Country data DelawareThirteenth Amendment ratified.
1902 CameroonGradual abolition of slavery.[156]
1903Tɛmplet:Country data French Sudan"Slave" no longer used as an administrative category.
1904 United Kingdom
 Germany
 Denmark
 Spain
 France
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Italy Italy
 Netherlands
 Portugal
Tɛmplet:Country data Russia
International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic signed in Paris. Only France, the Netherlands and Russia extend the treaty to the whole extent of their colonial empires with immediate effect, and Italy extends it to Eritrea but not to Italian Somaliland.[157]
British East AfricaSlavery abolished.[158]
1905Tɛmplet:Country data French West AfricaSlavery formally abolished. Though up to one million slaves gain their freedom, slavery continues to exist in practice for decades afterward.
1906Tɛmplet:Country data Qing DynastySlavery abolished beginning on 31 January 1910. Adult slaves are converted into hired laborers and the minors freed upon reaching age 25.[159]
Tɛmplet:Country data BarotselandSlavery abolished.[160]
1908Tɛmplet:Country data Ottoman EmpireThe Young Turk Revolution eradicates the open trade of Zanj and Circassian women from Constantinople.[161]
Tɛmplet:Country data Congo Free StateBelgium annexes the Congo Free State, ending the practice of slavery there.
1912Tɛmplet:Country data Thailand SiamSlavery abolished.[154]
1915Tɛmplet:Country data Malaysia British MalayaSlavery abolished.[162]
1917Tɛmplet:Country data British RajIndian indenture system abolished.[163]
1918 United StatesSupreme Court rules in Arver v. United States that the 13th Amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude does not apply to conscription. The government can constitutionally force people to serve in the military against their will.
1919Tɛmplet:Country data TanganyikaSlavery abolished.[158]
1922 MoroccoSlave trade abolished, slave holding remained legal.[164]
1923 AfghanistanSlavery abolished.[165]
Tɛmplet:Country data FloridaConvict lease abolished after the death of Martin Tabert, who was whipped for being too ill to work.[citation needed]
Tɛmplet:Country data British Hong KongSlavery of Mui tsai abolished.
1924Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Iraq IraqSlavery abolished.[166]
Anglo-Egyptian SudanSlavery abolished[167]
Tɛmplet:Country data League of NationsTemporary Slavery Commission appointed.
 TurkeySlavery abolished[168]
1926Tɛmplet:Country data NepalSlavery abolished.[169]
Tɛmplet:Country data League of NationsConvention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery.
United Kingdom British BurmaSlavery abolished.[162]
 United Kingdom Law of Property Act 1925.
1927 Spain1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
 United Kingdom
Tɛmplet:Country data Nejd Nejd
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Hejaz
Treaty of Jeddah (1927) abolishing the slave trade.
1928 Sierra LeoneAbolition of domestic slavery practised by local African elites.[170] Although established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Tɛmplet:Country data AlabamaConvict lease abolished, the last state in the Union to do so.
1929Tɛmplet:Country data PersiaSlavery abolished and criminalized.[171]
1930Tɛmplet:Country data League of NationsForced Labour Convention.
Forced Labour (Indirect Compulsion) Recommendation
Forced Labour (Regulation) Recommendation
1932Tɛmplet:Country data League of NationsCommittee of Experts on Slavery appointed.
1934Tɛmplet:Country data League of NationsAdvisory Committee of Experts on Slavery appointed.
1935Tɛmplet:Country data Ethiopian Empire EthiopiaThe invading Italian General Emilio De Bono claims to have abolished slavery in the Ethiopian Empire.[172]
1936 Tɛmplet:Country data League of Nations Elimination of Recruiting Recommendation
1936 Northern NigeriaSlavery abolished.[173]
United Kingdom BechuanalandSlavery abolished.[174]
1937 BahrainSlavery abolished.[175]
1937 Tɛmplet:Country data League of Nations Public Works (International Co-operation) Recommendation
1941 United StatesFranklin D. Roosevelt signs Circular 3591 abolishing all forms of convict leasing.
1945 Occupied GermanyMillions of forced labourers and slaves are freed after the fall of the Third Reich; see forced labour under German rule during World War II.
Tɛmplet:Country data Japanese EmpireMillions of forced labourers and sex slaves are freed after the defeat of the Japanese Empire; see comfort women, rōmusha, East Asia Development Board.
1946 Occupied GermanyFritz Sauckel, Nazi official responsible for procuring forced labor in occupied Europe during World War II, is convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged.[176]
Tɛmplet:Country data French SudanBeginning of large slave defections encouraged by the French Fourth Republic and the Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally party.
1948Tɛmplet:Country data United NationsArticle 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares slavery contrary to human rights.[177]
1949Tɛmplet:Country data KuwaitSlavery abolished.[175]


Date Jurisdiction Description
1950Tɛmplet:Country data United NationsAd Hoc Committee on Slavery.
1952Tɛmplet:Country data QatarSlavery abolished.[178][179]
1953 Australia
 Canada
 Liberia
Tɛmplet:Country data New Zealand
 South Africa
 Switzerland
 United Kingdom
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1954 Afghanistan
 Austria
 Cuba
 Denmark
 Egypt
Tɛmplet:Country data Finland
 India
 Italy
 Mexico
Tɛmplet:Country data Monaco
 Sweden
Tɛmplet:Country data Syria
1955 Ecuador
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Greece Greece
Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Iraq Iraq
Tɛmplet:Country data Israel
 Netherlands
Tɛmplet:Country data Pakistan
 Philippines

Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of China
 Turkey
1956Tɛmplet:Country data United NationsSupplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery.
Tɛmplet:Country data Byelorussian SSR Byelorussia[180]
 Soviet Union
United States United States
 South Vietnam
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1957Tɛmplet:Country data United NationsThe Abolition of Forced Labour Convention eliminates some exceptions admitted in the 1930 Forced Labour Convention.
 Albania
Tɛmplet:Country data Libya
Tɛmplet:Country data Burma
Tɛmplet:Country data Norway
 Romania
Tɛmplet:Country data Sudan
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1958Tɛmplet:Country data BhutanSlavery abolished.[181]
 Hungary
Tɛmplet:Country data Ceylon
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1959Tɛmplet:Country data Jordan
 Morocco
Tɛmplet:Country data Ukrainian SSR Ukraine[182]
1960Tɛmplet:Country data NigerSlavery abolished.[183]
 MaliFirst president Modibo Keita makes the effective abolition of slavery a prominent goal of the government. However, his efforts are largely abandoned during the dictatorship of Moussa Traoré (1968–1991).
1961 Nigeria1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1961 MoroccoSlavery abolished under Moroccan Constitution, although domestic slave practices continued.[164]
1962Tɛmplet:Country data Saudi ArabiaSlavery abolished.[178]
Tɛmplet:Country data North Yemen
 Belgium
 Sierra Leone
Tɛmplet:Country data Tanganyika (1961–1964)
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1963 Algeria
 France
 Guinea
Tɛmplet:Country data Kuwait
Tɛmplet:Country data Nepal
1964Tɛmplet:Country data Trucial StatesSlavery abolished.[lower-alpha 1]
Tɛmplet:Country data Jamaica
Tɛmplet:Country data Madagascar
Tɛmplet:Country data Niger
 Uganda
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1965Tɛmplet:Country data Malawi
1966 Brazil
 Malta
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Tunisia
1966Tɛmplet:Country data United NationsInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
1967Tɛmplet:Country data South YemenSlavery abolished.[185]
1968Tɛmplet:Country data Mongolia1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1969Tɛmplet:Country data Ethiopian Empire Ethiopia
Tɛmplet:Country data Mauritius
1970 OmanSlavery abolished.[186]
1972Tɛmplet:Country data Fiji1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1973 West Germany
 Mali
Tɛmplet:Country data Saudi Arabia
Tɛmplet:Country data Zambia
1974Tɛmplet:Country data Lesotho
1976Tɛmplet:Country data Bahamas
Tɛmplet:Country data Barbados
Tɛmplet:Country data KentuckyThirteenth Amendment ratified.
1981 MauritaniaSlavery abolished,[187][188] though the ban was not enforced and many people continued to be held as slaves.[189]
Tɛmplet:Country data Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Tɛmplet:Country data Solomon Islands
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1982Tɛmplet:Country data Papua New Guinea
1983 Bolivia
 Guatemala
1984 Cameroon
1985Tɛmplet:Country data Bangladesh
1986Tɛmplet:Country data Cyprus
 Mauritania
Tɛmplet:Country data Nicaragua
1987Tɛmplet:Country data North Yemen
1990Tɛmplet:Country data Bahrain
Tɛmplet:Country data Saint Lucia
1992Tɛmplet:Country data Croatia
1993Tɛmplet:Country data Bosnia and Herzegovina
1994Tɛmplet:Country data Dominica
1995 Chile
Tɛmplet:Country data MississippiThe Mississippi Legislature unanimously votes to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution after a clerk discovers it never had. It is the last eligible state in the union to do so. However, state officials fail to send the required documentation to the state register.[190]
1996 Azerbaijan1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1997Tɛmplet:Country data Kyrgyzstan
 Turkmenistan
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
1998 GhanaForced ritual servitude of girls in Ewe shrines banned.
Tɛmplet:Country data United Nations Rome Statute


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Date Jurisdiction Description
2001Tɛmplet:Country data Serbia and Montenegro Yugoslavia
 Uruguay
1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
2003Tɛmplet:Country data NigerSlavery criminalized.[183]
2006Tɛmplet:Country data Montenegro1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
 MaliTemedt, an organization against slavery and the discrimination of former slaves, is founded in Essakane.
2007 MauritaniaSlavery criminalized.[191]
 Paraguay1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
2008 Kazakhstan
2009 United KingdomSection 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.[192]
2010Tɛmplet:Country data Sahrawi Arab Democratic RepublicSlavery criminalized.[193]
2013Tɛmplet:Country data MississippiRatification of the Thirteenth Amendment legally recorded.[190]
2014 Tɛmplet:Country data United Nations Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention
Forced Labour (Supplementary Measures) Recommendation
2015 United KingdomModern Slavery Act 2015.[194]
2017Navajo NationCriminalization of human trafficking.[195]
Tɛmplet:Country data ChadSlavery criminalized.[196]
2018Tɛmplet:Country data ColoradoPrison exception removed from Colorado's constitutional ban on slavery.[197]
2019 Iraq
Tɛmplet:Country data Syria
Defeat and debellatio of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant leads to the freeing of thousands of slaves, including Yazidi and Christian sex slaves.[198][199][200]
2020Tɛmplet:Country data Utah
Tɛmplet:Country data Nebraska
Prison exception removed from both states' constitutional ban on slavery.[201][202]
2022 Tɛmplet:Country data Alabama
Tɛmplet:Country data Oregon
Tɛmplet:Country data Tennessee
Tɛmplet:Country data Vermont
Prison exception removed from the states' constitutional ban on slavery.[203]
PresentWorldwideAlthough slavery is now abolished de jure in all countries,[204][205] de facto practices akin to it continue today in many places throughout the world,[206][207][208][209] almost exclusively in Asia and Africa.[citation needed]

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    1. Except Abu Dhabi, the rest of the Trucial States officially abolished slavery by a joint declaration in 1956. Abu Dhabi officially abolished it in 1963.[184]
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