Serfdom (effectively slavery) abolished in Russia by Imperial decree, 1861, sans guerre.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > But it is a little sad to think that, among
> slavery,
> > fascism, Nazism,
> > and Communism (aka state socialism), only the last
> > vanished from the
> > pages of history without being militarily defeated
> > by an external
> > enemy.
>
> The Brits got rid of slavery by a combination of
> common law -- it was always illegal in England --
> and
> an Act of Parliament (1833) abolishing the slave
> trade. The latter was due to a mass movement, and
> memorialized misleadingly as the result of One Man's
> (William Wilberforce) heroic struggle in the recent
> movie Amazing Grace.
>
> Slavery survived in Cuba to 1886 and Brazil to 1888.
> In both cases it was abolished without bloody war.
> Russian serfdom was abolished by ukase in 1861
> without
> war.
>
> Unfortunately slavery has not been abolished
> absolutely; it persists to this day in parts of
> Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia, and
> existed in the Nazi concentration camps and the
> Stalinist gulag. Forced labor remains a lawful
> punishment in the US under the 13th Amendment, a
> loophole that was the basis for the de facto and de
> jure re-enslavement of large parts of the black
> population especially after Reconstruction.
>
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