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    Slavery was gradually abolished in the Americas and globally over the 18th-19th centuries as abolitionist movements argued it violated human rights and sought to end the practice. While facing resistance, slavery was first abolished in the U.S. in 1865 and last in Brazil in 1888. Mauritania was the final country to abolish slavery in 1981, though the ban was not enforced until legal mechanisms for prosecution were established in 2007.

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    Slavery was gradually abolished in the Americas and globally over the 18th-19th centuries as abolitionist movements argued it violated human rights and sought to end the practice. While facing resistance, slavery was first abolished in the U.S. in 1865 and last in Brazil in 1888. Mauritania was the final country to abolish slavery in 1981, though the ban was not enforced until legal mechanisms for prosecution were established in 2007.

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    Beginning in the 18th century, a series of abolitionist movements saw slavery as a violation of the

    slaves' rights as people ("all men are created equal"), and sought to abolish it. Abolitionism
    encountered extreme resistance but was eventually successful. In the United States it was
    abolished in 1865 and in Cuba in 1886. The last country in the Americas to abolish slavery was
    Brazil, in 1888.[33] The last country to abolish slavery, Mauritania, did so in 1981. The 1981 ban on
    slavery was not effectively enforced in practice, as there were no legal mechanisms to prosecute
    those who used slaves. This only came in 2007.

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