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In the General Act of the Brussel Conference of 1889-90 "declared that they were equally animated by the firm intention of putting an end to the traffic in African slaves" and with the Convention of Saint-Germain-en-Laye of 1919, the signatories "affirmed their intention of securing the complete suppression of slavery in all its forms and of the slave trade by land and sea".

With the 1926 Slavery Convention, these intentions became more formalized, and slavery and slave trade were banned. Revisions were later made to the convention, see United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery.

The convention text can be found at the Office of the United Nations High Commisioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, here.

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