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Slavery has *mostly* ended everywhere, and most countries never fought a horrible Civil War like the US to do it. Do we have reason to think industrialization and economic development would have rendered the institution unprofitable in another fifty years if the war hadn't been fought?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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