Slavery in Romania
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Chattel Slavery existed on the territory of present-day Romania from the founding of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in 13th–14th century, until it was abolished in stages during the 1840s and 1850s before the Romanian War of Independence and the formation of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859, and also until 1783 in Transylvania and Bukovina. Most of the slaves were of Romani ethnicity. Particularly in Moldavia there were also slaves of Tatar ethnicity, probably prisoners captured from the wars with the Nogai and Crimean Tatars.
Nomadic Roma family traveling in Moldavia, Auguste Raffet, 1837
Roma gold miners (Boyash, Aurari or Rudari) at work, gold panning
A deed of donation through which Stephen III of Moldavia donates a number of sălașe of Roma slaves to the Rădăuţi bishopric
A shatra (village) founded by Roma slaves, as depicted in an 1860 engraving by Dieudonné Lancelot
Abolitionism
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Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.
Photograph of a slave boy in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. 'An Arab master's punishment for a slight offence.' c. 1890. From at least the 1860s onwards, photography was a powerful weapon in the abolitionist arsenal.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, known as the "Black Mozart", was, by his social position, and by his political involvement, a figurehead of free blacks.
Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754–1793), who organized the Society of the Friends of the Blacks in 1788
Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848, by Biard (1849)