The correct answer is 1) Approximately three-quarters of the world lived in bondage as a slave or a serf.
The statement that is true is "By the end of the 1700s, approximately three-quarters of the world lived in bondage as a slave or a serf."
Things started to change a little bit in 1641 when Massachusetts created the first legislation on slavey. Many years later, in Europe, 1781, Joseph II, the Roman Emperor ordered the abolition of serfdom in Austria. In 1789, the French Revolution declares that men are born free and have equal rights,
