Question: what happened?
Answer: We finally had a situation where the most powerful country in the world, at the time the English Empire, got closer to God at a personal level. Because the Anglos embraced Martin Luther's 5 Solas and recognized that their relationship with God was theirs to embrace, not dependent on others, our culture changed. The abolitionist movement grew from a grass-roots effort because the population was awakening to God. Of course, this extended outside England into other Anglo majority nations like the U.S., Canada, and Australia. We used our influence to push for abolition in the nations we traded with and made military alliances with. When the Allies won WW1 and the old Ottoman Empire was put under temporary English control while we were splitting it up to give power to the different groups within (our deal with them if they helped us overthrow the Ottoman Empire) England freed the slaves there. Dig it! Slaves were free in much of the middle east for the first time since....ever.
“We finally had a situation where the most powerful country in the world, at the time the English Empire, got closer to God at a personal level.”
That is an interesting comment.
If slaves were freed because God told the North to “fight to free the slaves”, why didn’t the North fight to protect Native Americans from having their lands expropriated and the Indian nations themselves nearly extirpated?
Exactly what did God say to the North in regard to Native Americans?