11.   It is also well-documented that Jefferson wished to abolish slavery and made it a tenet of the Declaration in its initial draft.

12.   Police departments were organized, public schools were founded, child labor was forbidden, factory hours were shortened and slavery was abolished.

13.   The ancestors of many more arrived in America after slavery had been abolished.

14.   The celebration recognizes the US Virgin Islands as the first place to abolish slavery on what is now US soil.

15.   The Constitution they came up with, of course, required later redirection to abolish slavery.

16.   Two days before his death he got the news that parliament had passed the bill to abolish slavery in Britain and throughout all the colonies.

17.   Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery.

18.   When slavery was abolished, many of those jobs were filled by workers from India and elsewhere in Asia.

19.   Brazil was one of the last countries in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery.

20.   Chulalongkorn made further inroads into abolishing slavery and introduced modern administration and educational standards.