Therefore, slavery still persists in Mali today with as many as 200,000 people held in direct servitude to a master.

Although slavery persisted, some aspects of the relationship changed with the French administration.

Tonight's edition of "Dateline NBC" features a striking investigation into charges that slavery persists in the Sudan.

Legal slavery persisted; and those slaves already in the U. S. were legally emancipated only in 1863.

Indeed, as already mentioned in this article, slavery persists in several areas of West Africa until the present day.

The slavery had persisted, joined by newer outlaws and newer genetic and technological slaves.

Without this conjunction, slavery would undoubtedly have persisted for much longer.

While slavery persisted, slaves needed to have distinct names only within the plantation (fazenda or engenho) to which they belonged.

However, slavery would persist until the end of the American Civil War and the passage of the thirteenth amendment.

While slavery did persist in Upper Canada into the 1830s, by 1809 the abolition movement was well underway.