Indemnity

===Freeing of slaves and indentured servants===
[[Slave owners]] were considered to have suffered a loss whenever their [[slave]]s were granted their freedom.

When the slaves of [[Zanzibar]] were freed in 1897, it was by compensation since the prevailing opinion was that the slave owners suffered the loss of an asset whenever a slave was freed.

In the 1860s in the [[United States]], U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] had requested many millions of dollars from Congress with which to compensate slave owners for the loss of their slaves.<ref name="Lincoln-1862">{{cite speech|title=Abraham Lincoln's Second Annual Message of 1862 |first=Abraham |last=Lincoln |author-link=Abraham Lincoln |event=Presidential speech |date=December 1, 1862 |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29503#axzz1pzerHqlo |archive-date=February 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201005708/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29503 }}</ref> On 9 July 1868, [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution#Section 4: Validity of public debt|Section IV of the Fourteenth Amendment]] dismissed all of the claims that slave owners had been injured by the freeing of the slaves.<ref name="LOC-14th">[https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html Fourteenth Amendment and related resources at the Library of Congress]</ref><ref name="Archives.gov-14th">[https://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html#14 National Archives (USA): 14th Amendment]</ref>

In 1807–1808, in [[Prussia]], statesman [[Baron Heinrich vom Stein]] introduced a [[Prussian reforms|series of reforms]], the [[Prussian reforms#Edict of October 1807|principal of which]] was the [[abolition of serfdom]] with indemnification to territorial lords.<ref name="Sfectu">{{cite book |last1=Sfectu |first1=Nicolae |title=Insurance Glossary |date=20 December 2014 |publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9781470931100 |edition=First}}{{self-published source|date=June 2022}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}

[[Haiti]] was [[Haiti indemnity controversy|required to pay an indemnity of 150,000,000 francs to France]] in order to atone for the loss suffered by the [[France|French]] slave owners.<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Peter |last1=Hallward |url=http://newleftreview.org/II/27/peter-hallward-option-zero-in-haiti |title=Option Zero in Haiti |journal=New Left Review |issue=27 |date=May–June 2004 |access-date=19 February 2018 }}</ref>

In [[Peru]], [[Antonio Salinas y Castañeda]] (1810–1874), a wealthy Peruvian landowner and conservative politician, led the meeting of the main landowners of the country for an indemnity after slavery abolition and ruled the commission who promoted the immigration of Asians to replace former slaves as a workforce during Ramón Castilla government.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}