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True or false : the USA was the first to completely ban slavery

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Answer:

False.

Step-by-step explanation:

The first country to completely abolish slavery was Haiti

User Radek Paviensky
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Answer:

The United States was not the only or even first country to end slavery.

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In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves… shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free,” effective January 1, 1863.

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