The end of slavery in Cuba, as in Haiti, was attended by multi-directional violence: slaveholders, slaves, colonials vs European mother country, etc. It took a decade of war.
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Even the British imperial abolition of slavery in 1833 had limits: native slaveholders were long exempted. In northern Nigeria, the extreme case (and, tbf, not a British possession in 1833), slavery was not formally abolished until 1936.
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