Question

What was slavery? How it was abolished?

Answer 1

passed by Congress on January 31 1865 and ratified on December 6 1865. the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duty convicted shall exit within the United States

Answer 2

The Abolition of slavery was one of the most revolutionary achievements of the jacobin rule. There were widespread slavery in the European colonies of the Caribbean and the Americas. Martinique, Guadeloupe and San Domingo (Dominican Republic of Today) were the main French colonies in the Caribbean in the 17th century. These colonies were important suppliers of commodities like tobacco, indigo, sugar & coffee . they needed a large number of workers to work on plantations but the Europeans were not prepared to go and work in distant and unfamiliar lands.