1.   Although Africans practiced slavery among themselves, theirs was generally a more humane system.

2.   History shows that practically every society has practiced slavery, which still occurs in parts of Africa.

3.   The truth is that slavery was practiced all over the early United States, including the Dutch colonial settlement of New Amsterdam, which later became New York.

4.   We practiced chattel slavery.

5.   From now on, anyone who practices slavery will be ineligible for official loans or subsidies and cannot reschedule debts or bid for government works contracts, Cardoso said.