Editing Atlantic slave trade (section)

===Brazil ends the Atlantic slave trade===
The last country to ban the Atlantic slave trade was Brazil; a first law was approved in 1831, however it was only enforced in 1850 through the new [[Eusébio de Queirós Law]]. Despite the prohibition, it took another three years for the trade to effectively end. Between the first law in 1831 and the effective ban of transatlantic trade in 1850, an estimated 500,000 Africans were enslaved and illegally trafficked to Brazil,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2015/11/151120_brasil_escravidao_reparacoes_fd |title=O polêmico debate sobre reparações pela escravidão no Brasil |trans-title=The controversial debate on reparations for slavery in Brazil |access-date=2 December 2023 |work=[[BBC News Brasil]] |first=Fernando |last=Duarte |date=20 November 2015 |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203020441/https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2015/11/151120_brasil_escravidao_reparacoes_fd |archive-date=3 December 2023}}</ref> and until 1856, the year of the last recorded seizure of a slave ship by the Brazilian authorities, around 38,000 Africans still entered the country as slaves.<ref>{{Cite news |title=É hora de falar sobre escravidão mercantil e moderna |trans-title=It's time to talk about commercial and modern slavery |url=https://www.nexojornal.com.br/colunistas/2018/%C3%89-hora-de-falar-sobre-escravid%C3%A3o-mercantil-e-moderna |publisher=Nexo Jornal |language=pt-BR |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203020440/https://www.nexojornal.com.br/colunistas/2018/%C3%89-hora-de-falar-sobre-escravid%C3%A3o-mercantil-e-moderna |archive-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>

Historians João José Reis, Sidney Chalhoub, Robert W. Slenes and Flávio dos Santos Gomes proposed that another reason for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil was the [[Malê revolt|Malê Revolt]] in 1835. On January 25, 1835, an estimated 600 free and enslaved Africans armed with guns ran through the streets of Salvador murdering whites and slaveholders. Abolitionists argued that if the slave trade and slavery continued, slave resistance movements would increase, resulting in more deaths. Seventy three percent of the Africans in the Malê revolt were Yoruba men who converted to Islam; some white Brazilians believed they had a spirit of resistance against enslavement.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Graden |first1=Dale |title=Slave resistance and the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to Brazil in 1850 |journal=História Unisinos |date=2010 |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=283–284 |doi=10.4013/htu.2010.143.05 |url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/5798/579866831005.pdf |access-date=7 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715210720/https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/5798/579866831005.pdf |archive-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>