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Abolition of Slavery: A Long Struggle for Freedom
废除奴隶制：争取自由的漫长斗争
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Slavery existed for centuries across Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, but its transatlantic form was especially brutal.
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Enslaved Africans endured the Middle Passage — a terrifying ocean journey with high death rates and constant suffering.
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In the late 1700s, Quakers and former slaves like Olaudah Equiano published powerful accounts that changed public opinion.
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Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and abolished slavery in its empire in 1833 after decades of protest and petitions.
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In the U.S., abolitionists used newspapers, speeches, and the Underground Railroad to help people escape bondage.
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The Civil War ended slavery legally in 1865, but economic and racial injustice continued long after emancipation.
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Brazil was the last Western nation to abolish slavery — in 1888 — following sustained resistance by enslaved people themselves.
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Freedom came not from one law or leader, but from generations of courage, writing, organizing, and refusing silence.