In reality, the first slaves in the Americas were Native American. The problem was they either died very quickly or escaped. Then they came up with the bright idea of trading the Native American slaves for African slaves.
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Cuba and Puerto Rico were the last to abolish slavery in the Americas. In the world, Spanish and Caribbean were among the last ones to eradicate slavery.
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The certain Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery. It would appear that documentation is required to establish a fact that the United States was the first nation in the Americas to adopt slavery. With that said, it's clear that before the United States was an independent country, slavery existed in the Americas where the British, French and Spanish ruled colonies and territories.