Slavery was abolished in Ethiopia when the Italians took over the country in 1936

Damn racist Ethiopians.

Slavery is evil. Slavery of a specific race is both evil and racist.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Small numbers, but admittedly very late in getting rid of the vileness. However, the vast majority of African slaves (in the millions) sent to the “New World” were imported to Brazil which did not ban slavery until 1892.

If it's any comfort, I got that reference without Googling. No one else will, though.

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Small numbers, but admittedly very late in getting rid of the vileness. However, the vast majority of African slaves (in the millions) sent to the “New World” were imported to Brazil which did not ban slavery until 1892.

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Don't forget the Greater Antilles islands. Somebody had to make that sugar cane money.

Okay, Boomer.

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Small numbers

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There were a lot of slaves freed in 1936

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During Italian rule, the occupation government issued two laws in October 1935 and in April 1936 which theoretically freed 420,000 people.

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In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery,[3] when a presidential decree abolished the practice. However, no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban.[3][4][5] In 2007, "under international pressure", the government passed a law allowing slaveholders to be prosecuted.[3] Despite this, the number of slaves in the country has been estimated by Global Slavery Index to be 43,000 (or 1.058% of the population) in 2015[6] and by the organization SOS Slavery to be up to 600,000

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I have a friend whose dad was very high up in the Ethiopian military. Like one of the top officials. She had over 30 Somalian servants in their household growing up. They were essentially slaves from how she describes them. They didn’t get paid a dime. Just food and living quarters. This was in the 80s/90s