Formal emancipation across European empires took roughly eight decades, from 1807 to 1888.

Evidence

Between the outlawing of slave-trading throughout the British empire (1807) in the wake of the Haitian tragedy and the eventual abolition of slavery in Cuba (1886) and Brazil (1888), the ending of slavery throughout the extended European empire and its satellite societies was effected by the courageous efforts of many men and women, enslaved and free alike. Those hitherto regarded as somehow less than human were admitted, at least nominally, into the family of Man. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 89

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