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Slavery has always been illegal since Tulija's creation as a nation; however, it was not during Colonial times.
Tulija officially denounced slavery in the Proclamation of Enlightenment (1752), largely down to the protestations of certain intellectual and liberal Visionary Viscounts (the founding drafters of the Proclamation) such as Pearce Fairfax, Henry Coe and most vociferously Pierre Régis and Arthur Shields. However, the unfortunate position of the Proclamation as a loose and general announcement of a "new and free state" meant that while it generally abolished slavery within Tulijan borders, it did little to enforce this on the frontiers or stop the trade nearby.
Arthur Shields, upon being elected as First Minister in 1768, then began the "heavy handed and justified assaults against the traders", and put the nascent Tulijan Navy to good use in hunting down traders. However, this task immediately put them at odds with other nations - being the first to abolish the trade, Tulija was alone against the European traders. This resulted in harsh difficulties in pursuing the ships which transported slaves, and by the 1790s the Navy was forced into the altogether more difficult task of the Grand Wars. However, the tide turned and by Unification (and the subsequent further entrenchment of human rights) in 1815, the trade was being brutally cracked down upon on the seas, followed by other countries support in this task after their own abolitions in the 1830s onward.
The Frigate slave trade hunter "Black Justice" off the Camillan coast in the Interim Peace (1806)





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