AUSTRALIAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
Australia's only organization devoted to rescuing children from slavery and bondage
 

50th ANNIVERSARY

Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery 1956
entered into force on

April 30, 1957

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How you helped Titakashwar Sada,
a 14 year old former slave
 

200th ANNIVERSARY
Slave Trade Act 1807,
which prohibited
British vessels engaging in the slave trade,
received the Royal Assent
(ie, it became law)
on March 25, 1807



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THIS YEAR'S ANNIVERSARIES

50th ANNIVERSARY

Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery 1956
entered into force on

April 30, 1957

80th ANNIVERSARY
Slavery Convention 1926
entered into force on
March 9, 1927

200th ANNIVERSARY

Slave Trade Act Act 1807,
which prohibited British vessels engaging in the slave trade, received the Royal Assent
(ie, it became law)
on March 25, 1807

170th ANNIVERSARY

Murder  of Elijah Lovejoy,
US abolitionist,
by pro-slavery mob, on November 7, 1837.
The first white martyr

 

 

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How you helped
 Ramappa Moogappa,
a 12 year old pawn slave
 

April 3, 2007:
Continued exploitation of children in the cocoa industry.
Read the BBC World Service report
 

THIS MONTH'S ANNIVERSARIES

 


May 2, 1768:
Birth of Zachary Macaulay (Scottish abolitionist and former Governor of Sierra Leone)

May 4, 1910:
International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic 1910

Mai 10:
Mémoires de la traite négrière, de l’esclavage et de leurs abolitions
(Day for the Memory of Slavery)
(dans la République française)


May 12, 1789:
William Wilberforce ("The Liberator") rises in the House of Commons to deliver his first speech  to demand the abolition of the slave trade


May 14, 1859:
Death of Joseph Sturge (English abolitionist)


May 13, 1838:
Death of Zachary Macaulay (Scottish abolitionist and former Governor of Sierra Leone)

May 18, 1904:
International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic 1904


May 24, 1879:
Death of William Lloyd Garrison (US abolitionist)

 

 

Last Updated April 15, 2008