Question: In what year was slavery eliminated in the state where Tito visited the employer of Sinha Basnayake?

Tito's visits to the United States avoided most of the Northeast due to large minorities of Yugoslav emigrants bitter about communism in Yugoslavia. During a visit to the United Nations in the late 1970s emigrants shouted "Tito murderer" outside his New York hotel, for which he protested to United States authorities. Security for the state visits was usually high to keep him away from protesters, who would frequently burn the Yugoslav flag. <SEP> # country de jure education / employment gap year notes school leaving age employment age barbados 16 16? 1997 belize 14 0 canada 16 or 18 depending on province 16 2014 costa rica? 15 cuba 16 0 dominica 16 12 - 4 2004? dominican republic 18 21 2007? grenada 14 0 2009 haiti? 15 2002 jamaica 14 12 - 2 2003 mexico 15 0 2014 saint kitts and nevis 16 0 1997 saint vincent and the grenadines? 14? 2001 trinidad and tobago 12 0 united states 16 - 19 * 14 - 18 * the school leaving age varies from state to state with most having a leaving age of 16 or 17, but a handful having a leaving age of above that number. students who complete a certain level of secondary education (``high school '') may take a standardized test and be graduated from compulsory education, the general equivalency degree. gifted and talented students are also generally permitted by several states to accelerate their education so as to obtain a diploma prior to attaining the leaving age. young people may seek employment at 14 in many states but, in practice, most employers seek someone slightly older. however, it is common for those aged 14 (and even younger) to gain employment in agriculture. * varies by state or territory <SEP> founded in the northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex whigs and ex free soilers, the republican party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant democratic party and the briefly popular know nothing party. the main cause was opposition to the kansas -- nebraska act, which repealed the missouri compromise by which slavery was kept out of kansas. the northern republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. the first public meeting of the general ``anti-nebraska ''movement where the name`` republican'' was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on march 20, 1854, in a schoolhouse in ripon, wisconsin. the name was partly chosen to pay homage to thomas jefferson's republican party. <SEP> Under New York State's gradual abolition act of 1799, children of slave mothers were born to be eventually liberated but were held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. Together with slaves freed by their masters after the Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-black population gradually developed in Manhattan. Under such influential United States founders as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate black children. It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state, and free blacks struggled afterward with discrimination. New York interracial abolitionist activism continued; among its leaders were graduates of the African Free School. The city's black population reached more than 16,000 in 1840. <SEP> After qualifying as a barrister he joined the UN as a Legal Officer in the International Trade Law Branch of the Office of Legal Affairs, eventually becoming its Director. Son of the prominent lawyer Hema Henry Basnayake, QC; he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo and graduated with a first class in law from the University of Oxford. Appointed as a President's Counsel by the government of Sri Lanka, he has served in many committees of the UN.