USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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What did the ‘Slavery Committee’ of the League do?

(A) tried to get refugees or war prisoners home

(B) settle disputes

(C) improve living conditions of workers

(D) ** tried to free all slaves

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Concept note-1: -Its objectives were two-fold: “the complete suppression” and “securing the abolition of slavery and the slave trade”. Thus, the Convention sought not only to end slavery and the slave trade in fact, but also in law: to abolish laws which allowed for such enslavement.

Concept note-2: -The 1926 Slavery Convention was an agreement among member states of the League of Nations that obliged signatories to eliminate slavery, the slave trade, and forced labor in their territories.

Concept note-3: -( a ) To prevent and suppress the slave trade; ( b ) To bring about, progressively and as soon as possible, the complete abolition of slavery in all its forms.

Concept note-4: -What is the right to freedom from slavery and forced labour? The right to freedom from slavery prohibits people being held in conditions in which the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.

Concept note-5: -The abolitionists saw slavery as an abomination and an affliction on the United States, making it their goal to eradicate slave ownership. They sent petitions to Congress, ran for political office and inundated people of the South with anti-slavery literature.