1995 Event Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery and ratifies 13th Amendment 1962 Event Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing slavery 1932 Event Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery 1929 Event U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia 1926 Event International slavery convention signed by 20 states 1910 Event China ends slavery 1904 Event German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children 1892 Birthday Charles L Bass, actor, Business in White Slavery 1890 Event Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions 1888 Event Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Aurea" abolishing slavery 1886 Event Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba 1883 Event Slavery banned throughout British Empire 1873 Event Slavery abolished in Puerto Rico 1873 Event Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico 1865 Event 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished 1865 Event 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery 1865 Event Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery 1865 Event Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24) 1864 Event Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery 1864 Event Slavery abolished in Maryland 1863 Event Slavery abolished in Suriname and Netherlands Antilles 1863 Event President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful 1862 Event Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories 1862 Event Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions 1862 Event Slavery abolished in District of Columbia 1861 Event West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg 1861 Event Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery 1861 Event U.S. House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state 1860 Event Dem convention in Charleston South Carolina divided over slavery 1860 Event Slavery ends of in Netherlands Indies 1859 Event Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery 1856 Event Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery 1855 Event U.S. adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery 1850 Event Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue 1850 Event Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to U.S. Senate 1849 Event Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland 1848 Event William and Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia 1848 Event Slavery abolished in all French territories 1848 Event Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony 1838 Event Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor 1836 Event Texas abolishes slavery 1834 Event Slavery abolished through out the British Empire 1833 Event Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed 1831 Event Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery 1827 Event Slavery abolished in NY 1820 Event Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri 1804 Birthday Victor Schoelcher, Guadeloupe, abolished french slavery 1804 Event New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery 1802 Event Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) 1799 Event New York State abolished slavery 1794 Event French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery 1790 Event Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery 1787 Event Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) 1780 Event Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) 1777 Event Vermont becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage 1777 Event Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery 1772 Event Slavery outlawed in England 1759 Birthday Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery 1749 Event Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal 1746 Birthday Absalom Jones, Delaware, born into slavery 1688 Event Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pennsylvania 1669 Event 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery 1652 Event Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal 1641 Event Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery 1542 Event Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America 1391 Event Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery 694 Event Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery
