[schoen]

> Thanks to him and his son, Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery.

Nope, there were dozens of countries that abolished slavery later than Brazil. The most recent was Mauritania, in 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave...

I believe Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, but far from the last country in the world as a whole to do so.

[bXVsbGVy]

To be precise. Brazil was the last country from the West to abolish slavery.

Almost 40% of slaves traded over the Atlantic went to Brazil.

[UncleSlacky]

The US still permits slavery (as punishment for a crime):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

[potatototoo99]

Only counting slaves traded over the Atlantic is already a cop out.

[pelasaco]

One will say that communism, fascism and socialism enslave, and other will say that capitalism does. What was the difference between a concentration camp, gulag or a plantation? How far they are from the modern slavery from Bolivians in Brazil? Food for thoughts