The last legal abolitions
1962 · Event
Saudi Arabia and Yemen abolish slavery in 1962, Oman in 1970; Mauritania, the last, criminalises it only in 2007 — within living memory everywhere.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, Master
More from Slavery & Abolition
- Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (1833)
- Frederick Douglass (1818)
- Enslaved Africans sold at Lagos (1444)
- Tubman's Underground Railroad missions (1850)
- Arab slave trade (700)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
- Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded (1787)
- 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' (1852)
Around 1962
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)