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Line 38: − − − ==Prominent Abolitionists== − − '''Harriet Tubman''', Underground Railroad. (1820 - 1913) <ref>http://www.heritageny.gov/Railroad/urny.cfm</ref> Arguably one of the most well-known people associated with the Underground Railroad, a freedom-seeker herself, she made numerous trips back into the south to help others gain their freedom. She also acted as a spy and led raids during the Civil War. − − '''Frederick Douglass''', orator, writer and publisher. (1817 - 1875) <ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/447/000048303/</ref> − One of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, a freedom-seeker and widely known as one of the greatest speakers and publishers in the movement. − − '''Ralph Waldo Emerson''', unitarian minister and freethinker. (1803-1882) <ref>http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/ralphwaldoemerson.html </ref> When the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850, he referred to it as "this filthy enactment" and wrote in his journal, "I will not obey it, by God!" Speaking before the citizens of Concord, he said, "This is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion; a law which no man can obey or abet without loss of his self-respect and forfeiture of the name of gentleman." "Do the duty of the hour," he wrote. "Just now the supreme public duty of all thinking men is to assert freedom. Go where it is threatened and say, 'I am for it and do not wish to live in the world a moment longer than it exists.'" − − '''William Lloyd Garrison''', anti-slavery editor of the ''Liberator'' (1805 - 1879) <ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/966/000049819/</ref> On the 1st of January 1831, without a dollar of capital, and without a single subscriber, he and his partner Isaac Knapp issued the first number of the Liberator, avowing their "determination to print it as long as they could subsist on bread and water, or their hands obtain employment." − − '''Elizur Wright''', abolitionist, freethinker. (1804-1885) <ref>http://biblioblography.blogspot.com/2007/05/profiles-in-atheism-american.html</ref> While attending Yale he became interested in the anti-slavery cause. Later he took a position as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Western Reserve College. There he became further involved in the abolitionist movement moving from support for gradual emancipation and colonization of ex-slaves in Africa. After he became a more committed Abolitionist he eventually resigned his position at Western Reserve to work as secretary for the American Anti-Slavery Society. − − '''John Stuart Mill''', philosopher, essayist. (1806 - 1879) <ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/147/000030057/</ref> Mill supported the North during the American Civil War, using all his strength to explain what has since been universally recognized as the issue really at stake in the struggle, the abolition of slavery. −
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Indigenous slaves existed in [[Korea]]. Slavery was officially abolished with the Gabo Reform of 1894. During the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) about 30% to 40% of the Korean population consisted of slaves. Slavery was hereditary, as well as a form of legal punishment. There was a slave class with both government and privately owned slaves, and the government occasionally gave slaves to citizens of higher rank. Privately owned slaves could be inherited as personal property. During poor harvests and [[famine]], many peasants would voluntarily become slaves in order to survive. In the case of private slaves they could buy their freedom.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-693609/history-of-Korea Korea, history pre-1945:slavery -- Encyclopaedia Britannica]</ref><ref>[http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~geobl/main/lectures/l17.html The Choson Era: Late Traditional Korea]</ref><ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/p/snu/ioerwp/no26.html Korean Nobi]</ref>
Indigenous slaves existed in [[Korea]]. Slavery was officially abolished with the Gabo Reform of 1894. During the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) about 30% to 40% of the Korean population consisted of slaves. Slavery was hereditary, as well as a form of legal punishment. There was a slave class with both government and privately owned slaves, and the government occasionally gave slaves to citizens of higher rank. Privately owned slaves could be inherited as personal property. During poor harvests and [[famine]], many peasants would voluntarily become slaves in order to survive. In the case of private slaves they could buy their freedom.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-693609/history-of-Korea Korea, history pre-1945:slavery -- Encyclopaedia Britannica]</ref><ref>[http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~geobl/main/lectures/l17.html The Choson Era: Late Traditional Korea]</ref><ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/p/snu/ioerwp/no26.html Korean Nobi]</ref>
==End of European and American Slavery==
==End of European and American Slavery==