[NobodysFreak]

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Slavery is a side issue. It existed all over the world, and ended (on a large scale, at least) world wide without bloody multi-year conflicts.

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Perhaps it ended world wide because of our bloody multi-year conflict?

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the US was probably the last of the western nations to abolish slavery. Prior to the invention of the cotton gin American cotton was getting to expensive to produce even with slaves as compared to North African cotton. After the invention of the cotton gin, slavery had its second wind in America

Before all of this, England and France, the two other major colonial powers, had abolished slavery in their colonies.