Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom

Na de **abolition of slavery** occur at different times insyd different countries. E frequently occur sequentially insyd more dan one stage – for example, as abolition of de trade insyd slaves insyd a specific country, den then as abolition of slavery thru out empires. Na each step be usually de result of a separate law anaa action. Dis timeline dey show abolition laws anaa actions dem list chronologically. E sanso dey cover de abolition of serfdom.

Although slavery of non-prisoners be technically illegal insyd all countries today, de practice dey continue insyd chaw locations around de world, primarily insyd Africa, Asia, den Eastern Europe, often plus government support.

## Ancient times
During classical antiquity, na chaw prominent societies insyd Europe den de ancient Near East regulate enslavement for debt den de related buh distinct practice of debt bondage (insyd wich a creditor fi extract compulsory labor from a debtor in repayment of dema debt, buh na de debtor no formally be enslaved wey dem no be subject to all de conditions of chattel slavery, such as dem be perpetually owned, sellable on de open market, anaa stripped of kinship).

Reforms dem list below such as de laws of Solon insyd Athens, de Lex Poetelia Papiria insyd Republican Rome, anaa rules dem set forth insyd de Hebrew Bible insyd de Book of Deuteronomy generally regulate de supply of slaves den debt-servants by dem dey forbid anaa dey regulate de bondage of certain privileged groups (thus, na de Roman reforms protect Roman citizens, na de Athenian reforms protect Athenian citizens, den de rules insyd Deuteronomy guarantee freedom to a Hebrew after a fixed duration of servitude), buh na none abolish slavery, den even wat protections na dem institute no apply to foreigners anaa noncitizen subjects.

## Medieval times
:*N.B.: Na dem reverse chaw of de listed reforms over succeeding centuries.*

## References

## Read further
* Campbell, Gwyn. *The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia* (Frank Cass, 2004)
* Davis, David Brion. *Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World* (2008) excerpt
* Drescher, Seymour. *Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery* (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
* Drescher, Seymour. *Pathways from slavery: British and colonial mobilizations in global perspective* (Routledge, 2018).
* Drescher, Seymour. "Civil Society and Paths to Abolition." *Journal of Global Slavery* 1.1 (2016): 44–71.
* Finkelman, Paul, and Joseph Miller, eds. *Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery* (2 vol 1998)
* Finkelman, Paul, and Seymour Drescher. "The eternal problem of slavery in international law: Killing the vampire of human culture." *Michigan State Law Review* (2017): 755+ online Archived 24 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine.

* Gordon, M. *Slavery in the Arab World* (1989)
* Grindal, Peter. *Opposing the Slavers; The Royal Navy's Campaign against the Atlantic Slave Trade* (L.B. Tauris 2016) 
* Hinks, Peter, and John McKivigan, eds. *Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition* (2 vol. 2007) 795pp; 
* Lovejoy, Paul. *Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa* (Cambridge UP, 1983)
* Mathews, Nathaniel. "The 'Fused Horizon' of Abolitionism and Islam: Historicism, the Quran and the Global History of Abolition." *Journal of global slavery* 4.2 (2019): 226–265.
* Morgan, Kenneth. *Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America* (2008)
* Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. *The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery* (1997)
* Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. *Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World* (2007)
* Sinha, Manisha. "The Problem of Abolition in the Age of Capitalism The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823, by David Brion Davis." *American Historical Review* 124.1 (2019): 144–163.

## External links
* Timeline – What happened before 1807? The Royal Naval Museum
* Timeline – What happened after 1807? The Royal Naval Museum
* Slavery and Abolition The National Archives
* American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists, comprehensive list of abolitionist and anti-slavery activists and organizations in the United States, including US and international anti-slavery timelines.