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by bXVsbGVy 1392 days ago
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.

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

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

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