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
- Frederick Douglass (1818)
- Portugal begins the African slave trade (1444)
- Arab slave trade (700)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
- Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded (1787)
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850)
- Douglass's Narrative published (1845)
- West Africa Squadron (1808)
Around 1962
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Suez Crisis (1956)