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This is just a start - should include appropriate legislation etc for all countries and UN - please help especially with links etc.

United States Padrone System[edit]

A form of child slavery developed in the United States after the Civil War in which children would be sold as indentured servants to work in new industrial centers. This has been refered to as a system of slavery (Zinn, A People's History, p 266). This "Padrone" System (article already exists) was then abolished first through the Padrone Act of 1874 (article already exists) as well as continual community organization. Djsterster (talk) 15:40, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article confuses the serfdom of European peasantry (villein) and the slavery[edit]

Peasant serfs the villeins were not slaves. I suggest two separate articles for abolition of European villeins/serfdom and abolition of slavery --Pharaph (talk) 18:43, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

539 BCE[edit]

Cyrus abolished slavery after conquering Babylon in 539bce. That should definitely be on here. 204.148.73.182 (talk) 02:42, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We have no genuine evidence that Cyrus abolished slavery and considerably evidence to the contrary, that it was not abolished under Cyrus or his successors (there are numerous slave sale contracts preserved from Achaemenid times, some of which reference direct involvement of the Achaemenid bureaucracy in facilitating (and taxing) such sales: see for example Stolper, Registration and Taxation of Slave Sales in Achaemenid Babylonia).

What you are likely thinking of, as discussed on the Cyrus Cylinder page of this encyclopedia, is a modern forgery purporting to be a translation of the Cyrus Cylinder, which claims to abolish slavery along with other human rights initiatives and which has circulated widely on the Internet (and is not infrequently encountered, and subsequently cited in good faith, by people unaware that it is fake). Aithiopika (talk) 19:05, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1222/1236[edit]

Slavery banned in the Mandé upon foundation of the Malian empire 71.234.121.74 (talk) 14:07, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

sources : Kouroukan Fuga; Hunters' Oath of 1222; Manden Charter of 1236 (oral texts) 71.234.121.74 (talk) 14:08, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Venice[edit]

Are these final abolitions or does this list include abolitions that were later reinstated? Slavery was alive and well in Venice in the 15th century:

source: The Human Swarm (M.W. Moffett), Domestic Slavery in Renaissance Italy (Sally McKee) Twistybrastrap (talk) 15:38, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About slavery and forced penal labor[edit]

I feel like slavery of convicted prisoners is ultimately ignored in this article. When slavery is banned with explicit exemption of prisoners is the case in many countries, we should place more emphasis on that fact when saying “all countries have abolished slavery”. 2603:8000:FA00:5020:1578:B1E8:40CD:73FA (talk) 03:52, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]