In Europe, they had Serfdom of white peasants since the IX-X centuries and in some countries abolished it even later then in the US. No “affirmative action” though.

Yes, most of the
“enlightened” Europe had slavery until the
middle of the 19^th century or even later. And yet, the freed people were never
humiliated with the “Affirmative Action”. Find below some dates of abolishing
the serfdom:

§ &... Wallachia:
officially ended in 1746 (land reforms in 1864)

§ &... Moldavia: officially
ended in 1749 (land reforms in 1864

§ &... Austria: 1 November 1781 (first step; second step: 1848)

§ &... Bohemia: 1 November 1781 (first step; second step: 1848)

§ &... Batavian
Republic (Netherlands):
constitution of 12 June 1798 (in theory; in practice with the
introduction of the French Code
Napoléon in 1811)

§ &... Serbia: 1804 (de
facto, de jure in 1830)

§ &... Schleswig-Holstein: 19 December 1804

§ &... Swedish
Pomerania: 4 July 1806

§ &... Duchy
of Warsaw (Poland): 22 July 1807

§ &... Prussia: 9 October 1807 (effectively 1811-1823)

§ &... Mecklenburg:
October 1807 (effectively 1820)

§ &... Bavaria: 31 August 1808

§ &... Nassau: 1 September 1812

§ &... Governorate
of Estonia: 23 March
1816

Governorate
of Courland: 25 August
1817

Württemberg: 18 November 1817

Governorate
of Livonia: 26 March
1819

Hanover: 1831

Saxony: 17 March 1832

Hungary: 11 April 1848

Croatia: 8 May 1848

Austrian
Empire: 7 September
1848^[32]

Bulgaria: 1858 (de jure by Ottoman
Empire; de
facto in 1880)

Russian
Empire: 19 February
1861 (see Emancipation reform of 1861)

Tonga: 1862

Hawaii: 1835

Congress
Poland: 1864^[33]

Georgia: 1864-1871

Kalmykia: 1892

Iceland: 1894 (completely)

Bosnia
and Herzegovina: 1918