​​In Africa

The grinding offensives of the European armies on the African soil at the turn of the 20th century signed the death of the trans-Saharan and East African slave trades. Treaties would do the rest.

TUNISIA: 1846  Tunisia was the first Arab country to take the bold step in ending the bondage of black people.

ZANZIBAR: 5 April 1897 Slavery was totally abolished after many Decrees, the first of them enacted by Seyyid Said in 1822.
 

KENYA: 1907
 

MOROCCO: 1922 (By the 1600, Morocco was the country of choice for Portuguese to resell their unwanted slaves on the European markets.)
 

ETHIOPIA: 1942
 

MAURITANIA: 1981

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​References:
​​​​​​​​​​Cent cinquantenaire de l’abolition de l’esclavage, 1848-1998, France-Antilles Hors série, Mai 1998
McEvedy, C - The Penguin Atlas of African History, London: Penguin, revised ed. 1995
Segal, R - The Black Diaspora, London: Faber and Faber, 1995, p345

​Internet references:
​​​​​​​​​​Liverpool, local history: a timeline
Chronologie des abolitions

Restitution by France to Haiti
Gourbeyre, histoire de la ville​
L'esclavage
On nous l'avait cachée : Loi du 30 avril 1849
Islamic slavery in Africa