I learned that today was Juneteenth the annual commemoration of the end of African slavery in American in 1865. African slavery was abolished in the British West Indies on August 28, 1833, thirty years before the USA.
@DrOct Unfortunately slavery still exists in the USA. We just use a new euphamism for it - human trafficking. It's sort of like using the term "friendly fire" or "involuntary collateral attrition".