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9th - 6th century BC in India: Jain teaching abolishes it.
1102 Trade in slaves and serfdom ruled illegal in London.
However, it was France as a country that first outlawed slavery when in
1315 Louis X, king of France, published a decree proclaiming that "France" signified freedom and that any slave setting foot on the French ground should be freed.
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