Slavery in Malaysia
Chattel slavery existed in the colonies that make up present day Malaysia until it was abolished by the British in what was collectively then the British Malaya and British Borneo (Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan) in 1915.
From the 14th-century onward the area consisted of Islamic sultanate states, which enslaved non-Muslims. In the 19th-century, the territory successively came under the control of the British Empire, which started a process to gradually abolish slavery and slave trade from the 1870s until the final abolition in 1915.
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