[Cold Heat]

Lincoln had trouble with the slavery issue as well. He was no southerner. The slavery issue was not on top of the list of reasons to cecede. The average southerner never owned a slave, they worked beside them.

Only a few pampered rich people had slaves then and at the time, every culture had them.

We were the first to stop the policy.

It still exists is some black nations.

[thinktwice]

We were the first to stop the policy.

Slavery was abolished in the British empire in the 1835-1845 timeframe.

[truth_seeker]

"We were the first to stop the policy."

Wrong. Britain outlawed slavery in the 1830s. I recall 1837 (but may be off a bit).

[Jael]

It also still exist in Islamic countries.

[Junior]

We were the first to stop the policy.

Beep. Circle takes the square. France and Britain had abolished slavery a couple of decades earlier. And they managed to do it without slaughtering nearly a million people.