how did slavery get abolished?
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Depends on which country you come from but generally speaking the meme of each person having human rights and one of those rights is not to be a slave was a significant factor.\n\nBut I think real democracy was a big part in getting slavery abolished
767498
It attempted to free slaves in the South, but since the South was technically a different country, it didn't work too well.  It would be like Canada trying to set a minimum wage in Kenya.  It was little more than political posturing.
888751
slavery still exists. its just in a different form. there are slaves here in america and in other parts of the world. i am surprised u never heard of it. there are woman who come into this country with a promised job as a "maid" and when they get over here their employer takes their passports and keeps their wages. which is slavery.
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Lincoln was not an abolitionist at first, but when Uncle Tom's Cabin was released, he believed it was wrong. He wasn't just upholding the law because then, it was not illegal to have slaves. The 13th Amendment wasn't made until after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
678079
The last President to own slaves during his presidency was Zachary Taylor. The last President to own slaves, though no longer President at the time, was Ulysses Grant.
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Civil War and the End of Slavery in West Florida  \nThe Civil War and the End of Slavery in West Florida. Copyright - Duke Vickrey 1999. The Civil War brought an end to slavery in America. Of course, it would have ended in time without the War. No civilized nation today still allows slavery.www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3010/slavery.htm - 16k - Cached - Save -
170623
Read "Roots" by Alex Haley. You will learn alot about slaves and how much they were bought an sold for over the course of many generations.
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Not much at that time....that took MANY years.\n\nNT was tried and hung for that.\n\nBut it galvanized the Abolitionists....and later would be the Dread Scott Case...SC decided that slaves were not free even in free states , they could not be citizens and that Congress could not bar slavery from a territory. Though some states had passed laws to abolish slavery...I believe Illinois.
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The context of your question is very broad.\n\nSlavery has existed since the beginning of human history and exists to this very day in certain parts of the world.\n\nIn America, slavery (which President Bush observed recently was America's birth defect) was present at the founding of the nation, and unfortunately incorporated into the Constitution.\n\nOfficially, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed most of the slaves in the Confederate states.  It officially ended at the cessation of hostilities in the Civil War, but technically in 1867 once new legislatures in the newly emancipated South recognized the Federal mandate.\n\nBelow is a reference link to slavery in the 21st century.
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you need to define the parameters of Slavery.  Do you mean during the anti-bellum period? Do you mean just in the years between the Civil war 1861-1865? Do you mena just in America or around the World.  Slavery is as Old as civilzation.  \n\nIf you are asking for a reference during America's history of salvery and defining the terms from the orginal colonies up until the immaciapation proclamation including the entire Slave trade industry, then the numbers are phenomial.  \n\nAre you just asking How many Black American Slaves that resided in the South Died or are you asking about the entire slave trade from Africa through West Indies up to the southern colonies?\n\nRedefine your question, and you can educate yourself by doing Yahoo or Google or Ask Jeeves searchs about the American Slave trade.
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This article is about the "Fugitive Slave Act" of 1850:\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html\n\nHope it helps.
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I think that is where the US was split in two, half allowing slavery and half not allowing slavery. Kansas was then debated whether it would be a slave state or not because it was in the north, and there was fighting between abolitionists and pro-slavery people, leading to bleeding kansas where alot of people died. Sorry its been a while since i read up on that junk so i have no real details.
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YES!!! \nGo to iabolish.com and find out how you can help. Slavery has not ended, and you can become an abolishionist. People turn a blind toward situations in Africa, especially in Sudan. Everyone can help, you just have to be willing.\n\nIt costs $50 to free a slave! \n\nIn Sudan it's cheaper to by a slave than it is to buy a VCR.\n\nBe informed
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Lincoln asked them to abolish slavery. The Southern Sates did not agree as that would mean losing their entire workforce which worked in their plantations and farms and were the source of their wealth and economy.\n\nFaced with no choice, the Southern States left, what followed was the Civil War.
198378
The importing of slaves was outlawed before the Civil War. Slaves were "home grown" by breeding slaves in the US.
633522
Not in the US, but in some third-world countries it happens. It's been known to happen to some illegal immigrants, but it is illegal.\nBut I agree, it's time to wake up. Slavery is not "starting again", it's always been around. It's a big world out there, open your eyes.
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It's not acceptable, and every African/Asian/Native/Latin/Arabic-American knows it. The notion that anyone else is responsible for what their grand-pappy did is asinine. Slavery is gone; it's not a personal problem for anybody. However, racism is not gone, and it is a real problem. HOWEVER, minorities perpetuate it just as much as they suffer from it.