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GA probably has some better nuts and bolts arguments, but the Abolitionist movement had been going on for about a century before Emancipation - the moral argument for slavery was the africans, et al were lesser humans than whites so slavery was akin to keeping horses and cattleI'm curious, were there other factors aside from the Civil War and the Underground Railroad that contributed to the end of slavery? I'm wondering if economics played a role? I would think so, but I don't really know. Is there a good book that I can read that covers the topic?
but the more people heard black abolitionists speak, the harder it became to justify slavery on moral grounds
Slave revolts in the South and carribbean didn't help much (even though they were also used to buttress the 2nd amendment with race clauses)