ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH ISLANDS. Share full article. March 25, 1862. ... All slaves in those colonies will be set free on the 1st July, 1863, under the following conditions: 1.

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Share full article. May 22, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 22, 1862, Page 2 Buy ...

Please join us for the fifth symposium in AEI’s “We Hold These Truths: America at 250” initiative as legal scholars and political scientists discuss how the American Revolution both ...

The archival collection "The abolition of slavery in Tunisia 1841-1846" comprises the decree of Ahmed Pasha Bey (1837-1855) promulgated in January 1846 and which abolishes slavery. It also includes ...

City Hall in Lower Manhattan and other public buildings throughout the city will glow in a majestic yellow Friday night in honor of International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its ...

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 was later passed which freed slaves across British dominions, excluding territories occupied by the East India Company. A clause was included to pay compensation ...

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is expected to formally apologize for the Dutch slave trade during a speech on the 160-year anniversary of abolition.

After the abolition of slavery in 1833, the British government took out a £20m loan to slave-owning families, for the inconvenience of not having the luxury of free labourers, bringing about a ...

Slavery was abolished in Suriname and the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean on July 1, 1863, but most of the enslaved laborers were forced to continue working on plantations for 10 more years.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander speaks at an event to commemorate the anniversary of the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands in Amsterdam on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Peter Dejong/Pool/Reuters.