Cocoa is the essential ingredient for making chocolate. A significant proportion of the world production of cocoa is grown and harvested on plantations by African slaves. These slaves are on cocoa plantations in remote rural areas in West Africa. Some of the chocolate Easter eggs which we buy is made using slave […]
Movie poster ‘La Traite des Blanches’ May 4, 1910: International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic 1910. The objective of the Convention was to take the most effective steps for the suppression of the traffic known as the “White Slave Traffic”. A draft Convention was prepared at a first Conference […]
Zachery Macauley bust by Henry Weekes in Westminister Abbey, London May 2, 1768: Birth of Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish abolitionist. He was an active member of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. He was a former Governor of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone was a settlement for former slaves from […]
April 30 is Child Labor Day
Palais de Nations, Geneva April 30, 1956: Adoption of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery 1956. The Convention expanded on the definition of slavery in the Slavery Convention 1926. The Convention entered into force of the Convention on April 30, […]
Iqbal Masih was a former slave carpet weaver since the age of 5. He became a child activist after he escaped from slavery, working with the Bonded Labour Liberation Front of Pakistan. He was the winner of the Reebok Prize He was murdered on April 16, 1995. The Society preserves the memory of […]
UN General Assembly, New York On March 25, 2026, the UN General Assembly adopted UNGA Resolution 123-3 declaring the transatlantic slave trade a “gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparatory justice. The Society notes that the text of the resolution carefully avoids condemning what is currently happening in many states, […]
Sir Thomas Buxton, Bt April 1, 1786: Birth of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (“The Emancipator”). He was a British abolitionist. He is called “The Emancipator” because of his role as leader of the abolitionist Members of Parliament in the House of Commons which saw the passage of […]
Thomas Clarkson March 28, 1760: Birth of Thomas Clarkson, a leading British abolitionist and ancestor of one of the Members of the Society’s Board of Trustees.
Houes of Parliament March 25, 1807: Anniversary on which the Slave Trade Bill, which prohibited British vessels engaging in the slave trade, received the Royal Assent (ie, it became law).
Palais Wilson, Geneva March 9, 1927: Slavery Convention 1926 enters into force. Slavery was defined in Article 1 as “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.” This definition was expanded by the Supplementary Convention on the […]
Cocoa is the essential ingredient for making chocolate Easter eggs. A significant proportion of the world production of cocoa is grown and harvested on plantations by African slaves. These slaves are on cocoa plantations in remote rural areas in West Africa. Some of the chocolate Easter eggs which we buy is made using […]