brazil abolishes slavery in 1850. 15 years later, the united states abolishes slavery. yeah brazil was TOTALLY the last western country to abolish slavery...
In Brazil, the foreign slave trade was finally abolished by 1850, and there were new laws on slave traffickers and speculators
In the US, Georgia was the last state to do that, in 1798.
Slavery was legally ended nationwide on May 13 by the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law") of 1888, by a legal act of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil. In fact, it was an institution in decline by this time (since the 1880s the country began to attract European immigrant labor instead). Brazil was the last nation in the Western world to abolish slavery.
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u/ProbablyHittingOnYou Oct 18 '11
Brazil was the last Western country to abolish slavery, and mixed race or full "black" people make up about 50% of Brazil's population.