[DiogenesLamp]

In the coming decades, some nations, like Britain, abolished slavery and paid slaveholders for their losses, while also requiring newly freed people to continue working for their former masters for a number of years without pay. As the Swiss historian Frédérique Beauvois points out, the United States was an outlier: It freed people after the Civil War, and granted no compensation to their enslavers.

That's because the Southerners "crime" was not slavery, but daring to defy the corrupt financial cartel running Washington DC.

The criminals take a dim view regarding challenges to their power.

They dress it up as "morality", but the reality was revenge and punishment for those who dared to defy them.

[Brian Griffin]

“granted no compensation to their enslavers”

American slaveholders got nothing.

European owners of American slaves were paid I believe.