1900–1949

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Date Jurisdiction Description
1900   USA, eneo la Guam Slavery abolished February 22, 1900, by proclamation of Richard P. Leary.[1]
1901   Delaware Thirteenth Amendment ratified.
1902   Kamerun ya Kijerumani Gradual abolition of slavery.[2]
1903   Sudan ya Kifaransa "Slave" no longer used as an administrative category.
1904   United Kingdom
  Germany
  Denmark
  Spain
  France
Faili:Flag of the Kingdom of Italy Italy
  Netherlands
  Portugal
  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.[3]
  British East Africa Slavery abolished.[4]
1905   Sudan ya Kifaransa Slavery formally abolished. Though up to one million slaves gain their freedom, slavery continues to exist in practice for decades afterward.
1906   China Slavery abolished beginning on 31 January 1910. Adult slaves are converted into hired laborers and the minors freed upon reaching age 25.[5]
  Slavery abolished.[6]
1908   The Young Turk Revolution eradicates the open trade of Zanj and Circassian women from Constantinople.[7]Kigezo:Better source needed
  Congo Free State Belgium annexes the Congo Free State, ending the practice of slavery there.
1912   Thailand Siam Slavery abolished.[8]
1915   Malaysia British Malaya Slavery abolished.[9]
1917 Faili:Flag of the British Raj.svg Indian indenture system abolished.[10]
1917   Soviet Union Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks
1918   United States Supreme 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.
1919 Flag of Tanganyika (1923–1961).svg|frameless|30x30px]] Tanganyika Slavery abolished.[4]
1922   Morocco Slave trade abolished, slave holding remained legal.[11]
1923   Afghanistan Slavery abolished.[12]
Faili:Flag of Florida Convict lease abolished after the death of Martin Tabert, who was whipped for being too ill to work.[onesha uthibitisho]
Faili:Flag of British Hong Kong Hong Kong Slavery of Mui tsai abolished.
1924 Faili:Flag of the Kingdom of Iraq Iraq Slavery abolished.[onesha uthibitisho]
Faili:Flag of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.png Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Slavery abolished[13]
Faili:Flag of the League of Nations Temporary Slavery Commission appointed.
  Turkey Slavery abolished[14]
1926   Nepal Slavery abolished.[15]
Kigezo:Country data League of Nations Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery.
  United Kingdom British Burma Slavery abolished.[9]
  United Kingdom Law of Property Act 1925.
1927   Spain 1926 Slavery Convention ratified.
  United Kingdom
Faili:Flag of Nejd Nejd
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Treaty of Jeddah (1927) abolishing the slave trade.
1928   Sierra Leone Abolition of domestic slavery practised by local African elites.[16] Although established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.[onesha uthibitisho]
Faili:Flag of Alabama Convict lease abolished, the last state in the Union to do so.
1929 Faili:Flag of Persia Uajemi Slavery abolished and criminalized.[17]
1930 Faili:Flag of the League of Nations Forced Labour Convention.
1935 Faili:Flag of the Ethiopian Empire Ethiopia The invading Italian General Emilio De Bono claims to have abolished slavery in the Ethiopian Empire.[18]
1935 Nazi Germany legalized forced labor.[19]
1936   Northern Nigeria Slavery abolished.[20]
  United Kingdom Botswana (Bechuanaland) Slavery abolished.[21]
1937   Bahrain Slavery abolished.[22]
1940   United States Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Circular 3591 abolishing all forms of convict leasing.
1945   Nazi Germany Millions of forced labourers and slaves are freed after the fall of the Third Reich; see forced labour under German rule during World War II.
Faili:Flag of the Japanese Empire Millions 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 Germany Fritz Sauckel, Nazi official responsible for procuring forced labor in occupied Europe during World War II, is convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged.[23]
Faili:Flag of the French Sudan Beginning of large slave defections encouraged by the French Fourth Republic and the Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally party.
1948 Faili:Flag of the United Nations Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares slavery contrary to human rights.[24]
1949   Kuwait Slavery abolished.[22]
  1. "Affairs in America". CyclopeReview of Current History. 10: 1900. Current History Co: 54. 1901.
  2. "Slavery in Colonial Cameroon, 1880s to 1930s" (PDF).
  3. "University of Minnesota Human Rights Library". hrlibrary.umn.edu. Iliwekwa mnamo 21 Machi 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 "SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN EASTERN AFRICA". ResearchGate.
  5. "Historical survey > Ways of ending slavery". Britannica.com. Iliwekwa mnamo 2013-08-28.
  6. Hogan, Jack (26 Agosti 2014). "The ends of slavery in Barotseland, Western Zambia (c.1800-1925)" – kutoka kar.kent.ac.uk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
  7. Levy, Reuben (1957). The Social Structure of Islam. UK: Cambridge University Press.
  8. Hitilafu ya kutaja: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named autogenerated61
  9. 9.0 9.1 "International Abolition and Anti-Slavery Timeline American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists". www.americanabolitionists.com.
  10. "The legacy of Indian migration to European colonies", The Economist, 2 September 2017. 
  11. Goodman, R. David. 2012. “Demystifying ‘Islamic Slavery’: Using Legal Practices to Reconstruct the End of Slavery in Fes, Morocco.” History in Africa 39: 143–74.
  12. "Afghan Constitution: 1923". Afghangovernment.com. Iliwekwa mnamo 2013-08-28.
  13. Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs. "Slavery, Abduction and Forced Servitude in Sudan". 2001-2009.state.gov.
  14. Rodriguez, Junius P. (26 Machi 2015). Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. ISBN 9781317471790. Iliwekwa mnamo 2019-05-17.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
  15. TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (30 Agosti 1926). "Slavery in Nepal Is Finally Abolished; More Than 55,000 Are Freed From Bondage" – kutoka NYTimes.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
  16. The Committee Office, House of Commons (2006-03-06). "House of Commons – International Development – Memoranda". Publications.parliament.uk. Iliwekwa mnamo 2013-08-28.
  17. Kigezo:Cite court
  18. Barker, A. J., The Rape of Ethiopia 1936, p. 36
  19. Reichsarbeitsdienstgesetz, 1935
  20. "The End of Slavery". BBC. Iliwekwa mnamo 2013-08-28.
  21. Russell, Margo (1 Aprili 1976). "Slaves or workers? Relations between Bushmen, Tswana, and Boers in the Kalahari". Journal of Southern African Studies. 2 (2): 178–197. doi:10.1080/03057077608707953 – kutoka Taylor and Francis+NEJM.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
  22. 22.0 22.1 "Key dates in chronology of abolitions". Iliwekwa mnamo 3 Mei 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
  23. "The trial of German major war criminals : proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany". avalon.law.yale.edu. Iliwekwa mnamo 21 Machi 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
  24. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". United Nations. 10 Desemba 1948. Iliwekwa mnamo 13 Desemba 2007. Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948 ... Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)