For which government are you counting that as an achievement?
Apparently the governments of “every other nation on earth”. Which is odd, because I don’t think my country achieved that. I can only assume countries which never had slavery are excluded.
Australia had slavery. It was entirely unregulated until 1868. The practice mostly ended when Australia decided on a mass deportation of all Pacific Islanders in 1901, for racial reasons.
Apparently the governments of “every other nation on earth”. Which is odd, because I don’t think my country achieved that. I can only assume countries which never had slavery are excluded.
Australia had slavery. It was entirely unregulated until 1868. The practice mostly ended when Australia decided on a mass deportation of all Pacific Islanders in 1901, for racial reasons.
Did your locale never have slavery, or did it just never have slavery under a particular flag?
My understanding is that slavery was a near universal in the last couple thousand years of human history, and lack of slavery was the exception.