Quote:We overcame segregation, women's suffrage, child labor abuse and a whole host of other violations of civil liberties. I refuse to believe Slavery would never have ended without war, almost every other culture in the world ended it without war. Are we to believe we are the one exception?


Even removing the morality out of the equation look at it from a cost perspective. Owning slaves was not free nor inexpensive which is why such a small portion of the south owned slaves. The industrial revolution provided machines that did not need to be feed or housed to do the same labor. Slavery was destined to become an economic deficiency then the natural evolution away from it would have happened.