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There are no freed slaves remaining on the farm where they had worked as slaves. After emancipation, freed slaves were free to leave the farms where they were enslaved.
Princess Isabel of Brazil signed the Lei Áurea (Golden Law) on May 13, 1888, which abolished slavery in Brazil. The law freed all slaves in the country, making Brazil the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery.
The law that freed the slaves in the United States was the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be freed.
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Liberia was settled by freed American slaves in the early 19th century. It was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society as a place for freed African-Americans to return to Africa.