Date
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Jurisdiction
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Description
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Notes
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1807
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Ezo, Japan
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Slavery is re-legalized by the Tokugawa administration in Ezo for 11 years, until 1818
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1808
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Colonial Tussenland
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Konings' Law of 1808 criminalises the slave trade and ex post facto purchases
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1810
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New Netherland
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Statholder van der Beeke passes the Abolition of Slavery Act, not extending the law to the nation's territories. Indentured servitude remains legal
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1816
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Ottoman Empire
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Sultan Mehmed V issues an edict officially suppressing the white slave trade and freeing Circassian, Slavic, and Greek slaves
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1831
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United Kingdom, Carolina, Guyana, New England, Parmelia, Gambia, Sierra Leone
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The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, explicitly excluding certain colonies such as colonial India
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1836
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Bahia
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The emerging free Bahian state bans slavery and indentured servitude
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1841
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Bahia
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6 slaveowners are hanged and their properties confiscated for possession of slaves
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1853
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Saint-Domingue
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Governor-General de Lepinay abolishes slavery
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1855
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South Tussenland
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Zoekerist officials abolish chattel and all other forms of bondage
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1861
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Tussenland
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After independence, Tussenland abolishes slavery
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1862
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Colonial India
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With India coming under Crown rule,
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1874
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Portugal
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Portugal abolishes slavery in its European and American territories
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1878
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Equador
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Abolition of Slave Bondage Bill passed, de facto effective in urban areas
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1883
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Oman (United Kingdom)
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Abolishment of slavery in the Sultanate of Muscat
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1886
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Corea
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Slavery is abolished, though this does not extend to Poeja
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1889
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Ottoman Empire
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All forms of slavery are abolished and the African slave trade is suppressed
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1899
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Japan
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Serfdom is abolished within the new Constitution
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