The african slave trade literally never universally ended, it’s still going in.
Something like 5 or ten years ago, i read an article about a Nigerian couple who were taken to court because, when they had immigrated to Texas with a housemate, the police found out years later that he was literally their slave who they had purchased in Nigeria and had kept in brainwashed hostage conditions and used for free household labor in return for permitting his food rations.
People dont understand, slavery literally came from the old world. Since the age of agriculture and likely before it. If you could capture a hostage and create compliance, they were considered your slaves, thats how history went down prior to liberalism. It was justified ex post facto by the old hierarchy model of divine lordships, where agency was viewed as coming from God or some equivalent force, bestowed upon chosen people (people with the means to create hostages and compliance), and then their subjects only by extension of their masters. All abrahamic religions did this, and most places did this around the globe. The entire old world practiced slavery, along with some of the pre-colonial americas. Not everyone had slaves, not everyone agreed with slavery, but some aristocrats and political heads of all systems had slaves, all systems had some slaves in them.
And then the United States of America decided shortly after its Revolution that it wouldnt allow (specifically chattel) slavery (but did still allow or blind-eyed other types of traditional european slavery) in some states, it wanted to federalize the abolition of slavery, and then there was a states rights conflict, where state representatives and a political movement asserted their own state constitutions took precedent over the federal constitution, which lead to the Confederacy.
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