# Slavery in the post civil war era

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 2, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slavery-in-the-post-civil-war-era/253256 "2004-07-02T18:58:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlippyFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FlippyFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlippyFly)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slavery-in-the-post-civil-war-era/253256/1 "2004-07-02T18:58:16Z")

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Legal state-sanctioned slavery was ended in the USA with the civil war. What about the rest of the world? Are there any nations today with official, state-sanctioned slavery? If not, was the US the last nation to outlaw slavery?

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slavery-in-the-post-civil-war-era/253256/2 "2004-07-02T19:03:51Z")

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> **[Anti-Slavery International - Let's End Modern Slavery Together](https://www.antislavery.org/)**
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> Anti-Slavery International is the world's oldest human rights organisation, campaigning for freedom from slavery for everyone, everywhere, always.

[http://www.freetheslaves.net/](http://www.freetheslaves.net/)  
[http://www.iabolish.com/index.htm](http://www.iabolish.com/index.htm)

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slavery-in-the-post-civil-war-era/253256/3 "2004-07-02T19:04:23Z")

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Welcome to the boards **FlippyFly** ,

I can’t vouch for when each country outlawed slavery, but according to the [Wikipedia article on slavery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery)…

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> Slavery is in all countries considered to be a criminal activity, outlawed by UN conventions. However some states such as Myanmar and Sudan do facilitate the institution of slavery, according to anti-slavery groups such as Free the Slaves.

Zev Steinhardt