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I'm pinching myself to make sure I'm not dreaming before I say this, but I completely agree with your statement.If left on its own, Slavery would have been slowly abolished in the next 20-30 years and owners would have been compensated.
But the Southern Hotheads won out and forced secession which ended slavery in four years and gave slaves full citizenship and voting rights