Slavery abolition was a purported excuse for the civil war to get a bunch of swj christians on board. Karen types who felt slavery was sinful and degenerate. Which it basically is. But it was basically an economic war as wars usually are. And slavery was no favor to poor white laborers who could have done the same job for pay. The planters and slavers and mercantilists were basically the old timey version of globalists, moving africans, indians in to european colonies, moving chinks and muslims in to other peoples countries as well, just to drive down the price of labor. What they are doing today.