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1759-1833


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100th ANNIVERSARY

   
Abolition of slavery in the Chinese Empire comes into force (January 31, 1910)  

  

250th ANNIVERSARY
 Death of Thomas Clarkson

(leading British abolitionist and ancestor of one of the Members of the Society's Board of Trustees)

 



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THIS YEAR'S ANNIVERSARIES

125th ANNIVERSARY

General Act of Berlin

February 26, 1885

100th ANNIVERSARY

Abolition of slavery in the Chinese Empire comes into force
January 31, 1910

200th ANNIVERSARY

 

Decree of the Supreme Junta of Caracas (the capital of Venezuela) prohibiting the slave trade,
August 14, 1810

200th ANNIVERSARY

 

Declaration by
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
(a Roman Catholic priest and father of Mexican independence)

abolishing slavery,
December 6, 1810

 

THIS MONTH'S ANNIVERSARIES

 
September 2, 1989: Entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of the Child


September 7, 1956: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery 1956 done at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

September 16:
Jeevika Day
for bonded laborers
in the State of Karnataka
in the Republic of India


September 18, 1988: Historic decision on bonded labor by Justice Muhammad Afzal Zullah of the Supreme Court of Pakistan


September 25, 1926: Slavery Convention 1926 signed at the Palais Wilson in Geneva  

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September 26, 1846: Death of Thomas Clarkson.
Canon John Clarkson, a direct descendant, is an active member of the Society's governing body


September 30, 1921: International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children 1921

  

  

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