That's debatable. Ever studied the Civil War at all? If you did, you would know that the Emancipation only "freed" slaves from the South, and was used as one of the greatest political ploys in history.
It gave the Union a just cause for fighting the South, and kept countries like England and France from acknowledging that the Confederacy was an actual country.
1102: Trade in slaves and serfdom ruled illegal in London: Council of Westminster 1117: Slavery abolished in Iceland 1335: Sweden and Finland make slavery illegal 1588: Lithuania and Japan abolish slavery 1723: Russia abolishes slavery 1761: Portugal abolishes slavery 1772: Slavery declared illegal in England, including overseas slaves living in England. Lord Chief Justice Mansfield rules that English law does not support slavery. 1777: Slavery abolished in Madeira Those are the places that abolished Slavery before it was at all abolished in America. 1777: Abolished in Vermont. Cool, we got Vermont slave-free. Now for the rest of America. 1778: Slavery illegal in Scotland 1783: Massachusetts rules slavery illegal based on 1780 constitution. Whoa, we got another state. Thats two now. Thats so much. 1783: Bukovina: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor issued an order abolishing slavery on 19 June 1783 in Czernowitz. 1792: Slave trading abolished in Denmark (though slavery continues to 1847). 1794: French First Republic abolishes slavery[3] (re-established by Napoleon in 1802) 1802: Denmark abolish slave trade in Danish colonies 1803: Lower Canada abolishes slavery 1804: Haiti abolishes slavery 1807: Abolition of the Slave Trade Act: slave trading abolished in British Empire. Captains fined ã100 per slave transported. 1807: Abolition in Prussia, Germany The Stein-Hardenberg Reforms. 1808: United States -- importation of slaves into the US prohibited after Jan. 1 (Its still legal if its INSIDE USA, of course.) 1811: Spain abolishes slavery at home and in all colonies except Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo 1814: Dutch outlaw slave trade 1815: British pay Portuguese ã750,000 (several hundred million dollars in current values) to cease their trade 1817: Spain paid ã400,000 by British to cease trade to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo 1818: Treaty between Britain and Spain to abolish slave trade 1818: Treaty between Britain and Portugal to abolish slave trade 1818: France and Holland abolish slave trading 1819: Treaty between Britain and Netherlands to abolish slave trade 1821: Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela abolish slavery 1822: Greece abolishes slavery. 1823: Chile abolishes slavery 1827: Treaty between Britain and Sweden to abolish slave trade 1829: Mexico abolishes slavery 1831: Bolivia abolishes slavery 1834: The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire. The exceptions being territories controlled by the Honourable East India Company and the islands of Ceylon and St Helena. 1834: Jamaica abolishes slavery 1835: Treaty between Britain and France to abolish slave trade 1835: Treaty between Britain and France and Denmark to abolish slave trade 1836: Portugal abolishes transatlantic slave trade 1839: Indian indenture system made illegal 1840: Treaty between Britain and Venezuela to abolish slave trade 1841: Quintuple Treaty is signed; England, France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria agree to suppress slave trade 1842: Uruguay abolishes slaver 1843: Honourable East India Company becomes increasingly controlled by Britain and abolishes slavery in India by the Indian Slavery Act V. of 1843. 1843: Treaty between Britain and Uruguay to suppress slave trade ......Treaty between Britain and Mexico to suppress slave trade ......Treaty between Britain and Chile to suppress slave trade ......Argentina abolishes slavery ......Treaty between Britain and Bolivia to abolish slave trade 1846: Tunisia abolishes slavery 1847: Sweden abolishes slavery 1848: Denmark abolishes slavery ......Slavery abolished in all French and Danish colonies ......Treaty between Britain and Muscat to suppress slave trade 1849: Treaty between Britain and Persian Gulf states to suppress slave trade 1851: Brazil ends slave trade 1854: Peru abolishes slavery ......Venezuela abolishes slavery 1855: Moldavia abolishes slavery 1856: Wallachia abolishes slavery 1860: Indenture system abolished in British occupied India. 1862: Treaty between United States and Britain for the suppression of the slave trade (African Slave Trade Treaty Act) 1862: Cuba abolishes slave trade 1863: Slavery abolished in Dutch colonies ......:United States: Emancipation Proclamation declares those slaves in Confederate-controlled areas to be freed. Does not include slaves in "border states" and Washington, D.C.. 1865: United States abolishes slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. ****. Wasnt until 1865 that the USA abolished slavery. Just look at all the abolition before that. Started 1117, and it wasnt until over 700 years later that USA followed.
You really seem to know your stuff, but I don't think slavery was the absolute worst thing that ever happened.
I agree. Slavery is the worst thing to happen to humans. The worst this to happen in earth was the creation of the Nuclear Bomb, giving a single species of mortal animals the ability to blow up planets. The development did happen underground, so it can be considered IN earth.
