100 Years Since the 1926 Slavery Convention: Why It Still Matters to Family History

On September 25, 1926, representatives gathered in Geneva under the League of Nations to sign the Slavery Convention. The agreement gave international law a lasting definition of slavery and committed participating states to suppress the slave trade and work toward the abolition of slavery in all its forms. One hundred years later, the centenary offers […] The post 100 Years Since the 1926 Slavery Convention: Why It Still Matters to Family History appeared first on MyHeritage Blog .