Ending Slavery

Link in my status:

Harriet Tubman: She Never Lost A Passenger
Friday, May 1, 2015 | Lawrence W. Reed
https://fee.org/articles/risking-life-and-limb-for-liberty/

Hans-Georg Lundahl

Partly wrong history:

"Slavery was once ubiquitous in the world — and even intellectually respectable. That began to change in the late 18th century, first in Britain, which ended its slave trade in 1807 and liberated the enslaved throughout its jurisdiction in 1834. Before the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in America in 1865, American blacks risked everything attempting to escape from their masters, who sometimes pursued them all the way to the Canadian border."

No, it was not ubiquitous in the world, nor intellectually respected by all.

Non-colonial countries did not have it.

In France, your slave could claim his freedom as soon as he set foot on the soil of European France, and probably Québec too.

In Spain, slave traders were not well respected in the colonies, where slavery was allowed (notably in Cuba), but slave markets had to take place outside cities in order to not scandalise the good Christians.

Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and the rest of Germany, that is of Holy Roman Empire, had no colonies and no slaves.

Sweden and Denmark only had them short periods.

Mil Sneler

Hans-Georg Lundahl On the 27th of January 1416, Dubrovnik, then an autonomous republic (Ragusa) formally abolished slavery, the transportation of slaves and the idea of one person being able to own another, becoming one of the very first in Europe to do so after Venice in 960.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

Actually, if it was 1416, it was one of the last.

Sweden, Denmark, England, all of Francia went before.

But it is obvously before England re-abolished slavery 1834.

Mil Sneler

Hans-Georg Lundahl Sweden made the slave trade illegal in 1813,

Hans-Georg Lundahl The Danish ban on the transatlantic slave trade in 1792 marked the beginning of the end of slavery. Fifty years later, in 1847, the state of Denmark ruled that slavery be phased out over a 12 year period, beginning with all new-born babies of enslaved women.

Hans-Georg Lundahl Slavery was first abolished by the French Republic in 1794, but Napoleon revoked that decree in 1802. In 1815, the Republic abolished the slave trade but the decree did not come into effect until 1826. France re-abolished slavery in her colonies in 1848 with a general and unconditional emancipation.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

"Sweden made the slave trade illegal in 1813,"

That refers to the colonial slavery. In Sweden the white slavery had been abolished in 1341.

"The Danish ban on the transatlantic slave trade in 1792 marked the beginning of the end of slavery."

Also about colonial conditions.

"Slavery was first abolished by the French Republic in 1794, but Napoleon revoked that decree in 1802."

That is a slavery that only applied in Louisiana and the islands. Mainland France and Québec had no slavery. A slave who set his foot in mainland France could claim his freedom by just saying so.