Actually, the United States was one of the LAST civilized countries to abolish slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline
Essentially the only entities instituting emancipation policies after us were territories and protectorates.
[ Actually, the United States was one of the LAST civilized countries to abolish slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline
Essentially the only entities instituting emancipation policies after us were territories and protectorates. ]
Depends on where you start, the United states was one of the first of the Western Countries in the New world to Start the process, arguably the multifaceted makeup of the colonies and the expansion into new territories complicated the abolition of slavery and we paid dearly for it’s demise with the deaths of over 500,000 American (both south and north) lives to finally end it.
Several of the states abolished slavery before the Great Britain Abolished Slavery.
We are one of the few countries to pay with so much blood to abolish slavery. That should count for something...
Well, that could take some study. I was interested in Brazil:
“1885: Brazil passes Sexagenarians Law (Saraiva-Cotegipe Act), freeing all slaves over the age of 60, and creating other measures for the gradual abolition of slavery, such as a Manumissions Fund administered by the State.”
Brazil took in about 5 times as many slaves as the US. By 1860 their slave population was about the same as the US. It seems that a lot of African-Brazilian slaves died (work, disease, etc.) before having children. As a rule, the children of original slaves did better than their parents. They had not been battered crossing the Atlantic, and they were better adapted to their new environment (from bacteria to slave master).
Thanks for the link. Perusing the information provided, it seems that abolishing slavery was a long, drawn-out process in several countries.
“The United States was one of the LAST civilized countries to abolish slavery:”
I don’t really see that. Some were before us and some were after us, in abolishing slavery in the New World. Brazil and Cuba were large slave holding nations who abolished slavery after the US:
“1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.[29]
1888, 13 May: Brazil enacts the Golden Law, decreeing the total abolition of slavery with immediate effect”
Asia, Africa, and the Middle-East continued much longer.