Sentence examples for until abolition from inspiring English sources

The 300-odd-years of slavery in Jamaica from the 16th century until abolition in 1834 is a case in point.

The roots of this migration date to the turn of the 20th century, when Brazil sought field hands to do work that had been done by slaves until abolition in 1888.

Owners occasionally rented their troupes for public performances, until the abolition of serfdom in 1861.

Parliament House, on the site of St. Giles's burial ground, was completed in 1639 and was occupied by the Scottish Parliament until its abolition in 1707.

Thus, until its abolition in 1992, after the end of the Cold War, SAC played the leading role in the United States' nuclear deterrent forces.

But, without contradicting this stance, Osborne could have announced that the 50p rate would remain, as an emergency measure, until its abolition in 2015.

Black and white people had used separate entrances, and sat in separate sections of the cinema to watch the same movies until the abolition of Jim Crow.

Alan Watson benefited from Pat's support in coming second to the Conservatives in parliamentary elections, as did Adrian Slade in serving on the Greater London Council from 1981 until its abolition.

Graham Allen, chair of the Commons political and constitutional reform committee from 2010 until its abolition this year, criticised the way the reforms had been proposed.

I discuss my ongoing research aimed toward locating slave runaway sites in southwestern Dominican Republic beginning with the first recorded African slave revolt in 1521 until the abolition of slavery in 1822.

For eight years he served as an assistant public defender and Director of Capital and Special Litigation, handling numerous death penalty cases until the abolition of the death penalty in New Jersey in December 2007.