Timeline of the Abolition of Slavery in the Western Hemisphere
- 1804 Haiti
- 1811 Spain abolishes slavery at home and in colonies except Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic]
- 1813 Argentina
- 1821 Gran Colombia [Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela]
- 1823 Chile
- 1824 Federal Republic of Central America [which later breaks into separate countries]
- 1829 Mexico
- 1831 Bolivia
- 1833 British West Indies [process completed in 1838]
- 1834 Jamaica
- 1842 Uruguay
- 1851 Colombia [some sources give 1852]
- 1851 Ecuador
- 1854 Peru
- 1854 Venezuela
- 1862 Cuba abolishes slave trade
- 1865 United States
- 1870 Paraguay
- 1873 Puerto Rico
- 1886 Cuba
- 1888 Brazil
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