19 () posted 247 days ago by DoomerPill 247 days ago by DoomerPill +21 / -2 18 comments share 18 comments share save hide report block hide replies
No it wasn't. And it would have ended even without a civil war, because technology was advancing that quickly, becoming both better and cheaper than slave labor.
Cotton gin would have made slavery obsolete anyways before the turn of the century
I'll argue that slavery was already largely gone and was reintroduced to Europe by contact with more primitive societies.