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"Funny, that pretty much summarizes the stiuation in Argentina as well. We just tend to be a bit more drastic in our measures, but lack the funds to implement them properly right away. ^^U" Interesting! Do you mostly follow Spain and other South American countries, or the United States, or...?
I think that the British North American colonies (what everything else besides the United States was, before Canadian confederation) followed a policy of gradual emancipation, in which, like, slaves born after a certain date were born free, and those that were left were freed at X age or something. I think. There were only ever a few in the Canadas in the first place - we had a pretty tiny population compared to the States and our economy didn't depend on slave labour - so it wasn't very difficult.
"Seriously, those were horrible times... is there anywhere they weren't oppressed, enslaved and abused?" It's... pretty tough to point to one, sadly enough.
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