Why is it that almost every country was able to outlaw slavery

Most of the countries that abolished slavery were shitholes that had more civilized countries force them to.

In fact, that's pretty much what happened in America, it's just that the CSA put up a better fight than, say, Zanzibar.

It is the American character to misinterpret and kill in the name of the Bonus Situation.

>>3226428
Most people that stood to benefit fought against outlawing slavery. Places in Africa and Asia were forced by far stronger empires to put an end to it, where they knew if they resisted, they'd be slaughtered.
CSA was basically the only place in the world that had slavery, but was developed enough and had the will to fight against it.
Also, throughout Britain, France and Spain, they just paid the slavers a shit tonne of money as compensation whereas in the US they just declared all slaves free and that was that.
>it caused a massive civil war that killed like half the country's population
Consider suicide.

What >>3226581 said, in Europe they just bought the slaves off the slaveowners then set them free.

>>3226581

>What is hyperbole

More Americans died in the Civil War than in WW1 and WW2 combined. Let that sink in for a moment. It might not have been literally half the population, but you get the idea.

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>>3226581
>Spain
>Slavery
You mean Portugal not Spain, amigo.

>>3226604
>More Americans died in the Civil War than in WW1 and WW2 combined.

Not him but that's not hard when not only is everyone killed in the war by definition American, but also we generally didn't sent that many troops into the 2 world wars.

Because Britain never had a large domestic Slave population. The big European nations all had their slaves in their territories, while the US had theirs in their nation. The Europeans never had to deal with their free slaves first hand, and didn't care if those colonies had a period of chaotic readjustment.