Slavery | Slavery Would Have Been Abolished Without the Civil War

As an excuse for civil war, maintaining the State’s territorial integrity is bankrupt and reprehensible. Slavery’s elimination is the only morally worthy justification. The fact that abolition was an unintended consequence in no way gainsays [denies] the accomplishment. “The nineteenth century was preeminently the century of emancipations,” explains [historian] C. Vann Woodward. Small-scale emancipations began in the northern states during the previous century, and chattel slavery was not ended in coastal Kenya until 1907. But starting with the British colonies in 1833 and...

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