We could have done the right thing. We didn’t. Plenty of countries got rid of slavery without idiocy. We chickened out. We put an expiration date on it, then ignored it. We KNOWINGLY DID THE WRONG THING.
So are you going to sing praises for the Jacobins despite being mass murdering psychopaths who set up an even WORSE slave system than the one that existed thanks to Karl Marx wanting to reenact the Reign of Terror?