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Changes in informal society and slavery during the Chosun-Era in Korea - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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While slavery was unconventional in Northeast Asia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it has been documented in Korea from the Three Kingdoms period (BC 57–AD 668). In 1731, a new slavery regulation was introduced in Korea that stipulated that a child was a slave only if its mother was a slave, regardless of the status of the child's father. This led to a dramatic decrease in the number of slaves.
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