Editing Abolitionism (section)

==Moldavia and Wallachia==
{{Main|Slavery in Romania}}
In the principalities of [[Wallachia]] and [[Moldavia]], the government held slavery of the [[Romani people|Roma]] (often referred to as Gypsies) [[Slavery in Romania|as legal]] at the beginning of the 19th century. The progressive pro-European and anti-Ottoman movement, which gradually gained power in the two principalities, also worked to abolish that slavery. Between 1843 and 1855, the principalities emancipated all of the 250,000 enslaved Roma people.<ref>Viorel Achim (2010). "Romanian Abolitionists on the Future of the Emancipated Gypsies", ''Transylvanian Review'', Vol. XIX, Supplement no. 4, 2010, p. 23.</ref>