Katie Pavlich said America doesn't get enough credit for ending slavery. What say ye? My take is 1) it hasn't ended as an estimated 200 million exist world wide (That does not count economic or marriage slavery) 2) 1863, 1865 enactment seems pretty late to me 3) no push in the UN to prevent or to stop it.
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Actually, both Britain and the US officially ended slavery in 1808. But in the US, it didn't apply to slaves already here. And it didn't stop the smuggling of slaves into the country.
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Nor did it stop the slave ships as the Navy did little to intervene in their movements. The British Navy did more to stop the slavers than the US, greatly so. Many of the wealthier Southerners who still had cash at war's end tried to move themselves and their slaves to Brazil. There are still small cities of their descendants there. The Brazilian government stopped many from importing slaves however, they had laws similar to the US pre war, and even Brazil ended slavery in 1867.
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