Abolitionism ended colonial slavery throughout European empires by 1888

Evidence

Mike was most excited about telling the history of slavery in a way that proved its relevance today: how it did not end but it evolved to sharecropping, then convict leasing, debt peonage laws, vagrancy laws, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and racial profiling today. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 800 (#complicates, via linked claim)

But none of the moral movements were trying to stamp out the nation’s most immoral institution. The Revolutionary-era abolitionist movement was pretty much dead. Jefferson’s fatalism about the difficulty of solving the problem of evil slavery, and his habit of deflecting blame for it onto the British, had become entrenched across the nation. The convention of abolitionist societies that Benjamin Rush had gathered together in 1794 still existed, but it was no longer much of a force for change. Tiny antislavery societies in the Upper South and in the North were being swallowed up by colonizationists and their racist ideas. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 426 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Formal emancipation across European empires took roughly eight decades, from 1807 to 1888. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 89; Most Latin American nations abolished slavery before Britain did in 1833 — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1066; France ended protectorate tolerance of slavery under international and metropolitan pressure — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 333 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• British capitalism ended West Indian slavery but thrived on American, Cuban, and Brazilian slavery #complicates (0.85)
• Slavery did not end but evolved through later coercive labor systems #complicates (0.80) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 800
• Colonizationists absorbed and neutralized the early antislavery movement #complicates (0.76) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 426
• Abolition of US slavery relocated capital to colonial slave agriculture globally #complicates (0.74) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1077
• Colonization was explicitly designed to strengthen slavery by removing free Black people #complicates (0.73) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1257