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    Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation (which occurred from approximately AD 43 to AD 410) and endured until the 11th century, when the...
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    United Kingdom which provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire. Passed by Earl Grey's reforming administration, it...
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    Slavery had already existed in Ireland for centuries by the time the Vikings began to establish their coastal settlements, but it was under the Norse-Gael...
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    slavery in the Indian subcontinent is contested because it depends on the translations of terms such as dasa and dasyu. Greek writer Megasthenes, in his...
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    Slavery in the British and French Caribbean refers to slavery in the parts of the Caribbean dominated by France or the British Empire. In the Caribbean...
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    violence Slave bible Slavery and religion Slavery in antiquity Slavery in Britain Slavery in India Slavery in the United States Slavery in the 21st century...
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    raised against slavery in Britain until the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Some of the first freedom suits, court cases in Britain to challenge...
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    Slavery in the British American colonies was an institution that was brought into existence by traders and operated from the cities of Bristol and Liverpool...
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    Legal Chattel slavery existed in Saudi Arabia until the 1960s. Hejaz (the western region of modern day Saudi Arabia), which encompasses approximately 12%...
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    slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776...
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    of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. Slavery has been found in some hunter-gatherer populations...
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    Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for at least a thousand years. When...
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    human trafficking for the purposes of sexual slavery and forced labour, including domestic servitude. In 2012 it was ranked as a "Tier 1" country by the...
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    slavery existed in the area which was later to become Malaysia until it was abolished by the British in what was then the British Malaya and British Borneo...
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    that slavery did not exist in English law. In 1807, the slave trade was made illegal throughout the British Empire, though existing slaves in British colonies...
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    Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location...
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    Slavery in Egypt existed up until the early 20th century. It differed from the previous slavery in ancient Egypt, being managed in accordance with Islamic...
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    Slavery in Korea existed in various forms from its origins in antiquity over 2,000 years ago to its gradual abolition in the late Joseon period, beginning...
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    The institution of slavery in the European colonies in North America, which eventually became part of the United States of America, developed due to a...
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    Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa is a lie. Systems of servitude and slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in...
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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom
    The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries. It frequently occurred sequentially in more than one stage – for example,...
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  • of economic factors on the decline of slavery, specifically the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the British West Indies, from the second half of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Sexual slavery
    Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing...
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    An overview of Asian slavery shows it has existed in all regions of Asia throughout its history. Although slavery is now illegal in every Asian country...
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    Open chattel slavery existed in the region of Palestine until the 20th-century. The slave trade to Ottoman Palestine officially stopped in the 1870s, when...
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    Slavery was a practice throughout Al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain and Portugal) between the 8th-century and the 15th century....
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    Slavery in Cuba was a portion of the larger Atlantic Slave Trade that primarily supported Spanish plantation owners engaged in the sugarcane trade. It...
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    Slavery has been called "deeply rooted" in the structure of the northwest African country of Mauritania and estimated to be "closely tied" to the ethnic...
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    Anti-Slavery International, founded as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, is an international non-governmental organisation, registered...
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    The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (c. 30) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is designed to combat modern slavery in the UK and consolidates...
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