Originally Posted by harvey

A curious factoid: in Argentina and Chile there is no black people. Both countries were between the first in abolish slavery in America, so all of a sudden slaves found themselves without work, home, food... nothing. Therefore, they became cannon fodder in the Independence Wars or did all kind of risky works or moved to Brazil... to be slaves again. The last black population in Argentina died in the Yellow Fever Epidemic due to poor sanitary conditions and the fact they were the only ones willing to work removing the bodies of death people.

Another fact: most of Europe abolished slavery for economic reasons, not moral reasons. But they didn't abolish it in the colonies, so it's a double standard to the very least, both France and UK had slaves until well into XX century