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The 1942 Proclamation was later replaced by<br />
the Penal Code No. 158 of 1957, which was then<br />
repealed by the law currently in force, The Criminal<br />
Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of<br />
Ethiopia No. 414 of 2004, both of which include<br />
a provision banning slavery and imposing harsh<br />
penalties for its violation.<br />
The following materials from the Library of Congress’s<br />
collection were used in preparing this<br />
post:<br />
Sir Thomas Comin-Platt, The Abyssinian<br />
Storm (Jerrold's Limited, 1935);<br />
Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia<br />
(Haile Selassie I University Press, 1968);<br />
F.M. Goad by, The Law of Slavery in Abyssinia,<br />
in Journal of Comparative Legislation and International<br />
Law, 180-202 (Hazell, Watson & Vinery,<br />
Ltd., 1933);<br />
Encyclopedia Aethiopica (Siegbert Uhliged ed.,<br />
Hirasawa, 2010);<br />
Haile Selassie I, My life and Ethiopia’s Progress,<br />
1892-1937 : The Autobiography of Emperor<br />
Haile Selassie I(Edward Ullendorff, trans., Oxford<br />
University Press, 1976);<br />
Haile Selassie I, My Life and Ethiopia’s Progress,<br />
Vol. II (Harold Marcus et al., eds., Michigan<br />
State University Press, 1994);<br />
Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia,<br />
1855-1991 (Addis Ababa University Press, 2nd<br />
ed., 2001); and<br />
The Fetha Nagast (Paulos Tzadua, trans., Faculty<br />
of Law Haile Selassie I University, 1968)