A: Easy mistake to make. Let's take google results for "abolished slavery": > When did slavery end around the world? > After centuries of struggle, slavery wa

A: Easy mistake to make. Let's take google results for "abolished slavery": > When did slavery end around the world? > After centuries of struggle, slavery was eventually declared illegal at the global level in 1948 under the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mauritania was the last country to officially abolish slavery, with a presidential decree in 1981. This is also what I was taught at school. Most people in my European country probably know that "legal" slavery (for example debt bondage) still happens in third world countries, but I'm almost sure most don't realise slavery is legal in the US too.