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by chinesempire 2187 days ago
That's not true.

In UK for example anti slavery movements are born during the civil war as well.

But chattel slavery was already abolished for a period in the 12th century, before the Norman occupation that reinstated it.

US abolished it after a civil war because every other country already did it without having to kill each other, but civil war was really about money and taxation.

It didn't start to abolish slavery.