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In 1585, an 8-year-old Japanese boy was kidnapped and sold as a slave to Rui Pérez, a Portuguese merchant working in Nagasaki. The boy, who was named Gaspar Fernandes, was born in Bungo (present-day Oita province, in southern Japan) and was one of the five Asian slaves that Pérez was to acquire in the following years.
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The slavery to the Estats Units is a reference to the legal institution that will exist for the Estats Units of America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Slavery will be practiced in British America from the beginning of the era of the colony, and it will be determined by what the Declaration of Independence of the State Units of America will sign.
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In 1861 the civil war took place through which slaves were freed by president Abraham Lincoln.
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In 1878 On October 10, 1868, Cuba's first war of independence against Spain began. The contest lasted until 1878. When looking at that decade with a current perspective, we are before a true social laboratory.
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On January 19, 1880, 140 years ago now, the Congress of Deputies voted to abolish slavery in Cuba, a process that would culminate six years later with the liberation of the last slave, putting an end to one of the most shameful events in Cuba. our history.
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In 1890 Slavery in Africa has not only existed over the continent for many centuries, but it still continues today in some countries.
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