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by ffsm8 5 days ago
UKs ban on slavery across their territories was in 1830 I think?

That should be a few decades before the civil war in the USA about the same issue.

The US was actually pretty much the last Western civilization to abolish slavery from what I recall from history class.

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But three decades after France abolished it (the first time)