If the Civil War never happened, would slavery have eventually ended?

All the Northern states of America, excluding the border states, abolished slavery by 1804. Industry might of increased slavery in the southern states. Using children for labor was already a problem of the Industrial Revolution in Northern and European factories, the southern states would of used African-American children and adults as slave labor in the factories. More industries moving to the southern states would of increased production and they would of needed more laborers as the economy grew, and slavery in the south would of lasted into the 20th century.

In Lincoln's election manifesto he pledged not to interfere where slavery already existed as he believed it would have died out naturally.

In the rest of the modern/rich world, for example in Europe slavery died out slowly. I think perhaps the abrupt and bitter way it ended in the U.S. may have contributed to the racial tensions in the U.S.

I'm speaking from the viewpoint of a teenager from the UK, having been to America once or twice and the first time I went I was really shocked by the words that people can just throw around on t.v., racist slurs etc which would be censored on British tv.

I think had slavery died a natural death and been ended on the basis of people realising how morally wrong it is (not that I'm naive enough to claim that this is totally why it was ended in Europe) rather than being forced to end it it may have been different and people may have not grown up considering recently liberated slaves as inferior and passed the prejudices onto their children.

I think the racial tensions would be different, but not gone- I don't think anything so horrific can happen on such a large scale without forever scarring people and warping the way they think

The world moved gradually from a time when most people considered slavery to be a perfectly natural situation, to the world we are now in where the vast majority consider it totally unacceptable. The American Civil War was just one incident in that process, in what was then a fairly unimportant country. If it hadn't resulted in the abolition of slavery, America would have been much more isolated in the world, and I suspect that America would be a considerably less important country that in now is - if indeed it had remained as a single country.

Slavery is a preferred economy to many around the world (for instance, Michelin's rubber plantations which caused the Vietnam war) and even to some in the USA and it's threatening to make a big comeback with all the union busting and gutting of labor laws. Slavery would probably not die without armed struggle, this proved in both the USA and Vietnam. It's not over!

judging by ability of the quantity of racial hatred nevertheless lurking about in our u . s ., i'd might want to say that there would not be a u . s . of united statesa. that consisted of 50 states. There may be 2 separate international locations, and who's prevalent with what situation the international may be in now, simply by 2 international wars, the Korean warfare, Vietnam, and the themes contained in the middle East and Africa. If we were no longer what we are and in no way in a position to help others, who may nevertheless be alive? What the others are forgetting is that the South had grow to be its own u . s ., the basically reason they rejoined is that it replaced into area of the resign contract. So in spite of if it had died out or no longer, this u . s . that we now stay in would not exist in any respect. to move to Florida for vacation you may wish a passport to go the Mason-Dixon line. And if the South with its perspectives had sided with the Germans in the course of the international wars, then that could no longer also be available. we may were lower than Nazi rule in the course of the international by ability of now. scary.

Yes but only after the slaves revolted. The south would never have given up their slaves voluntarily. And I don't see any great racial tensions in the country today except for bigots who will eventually die off.

The last country to outlaw slavery was Mauritania in 1981.

Yes. It was an issue that was going to have to be resolved, somehow. Economically and socially, it could not endure. The southern states revolted because they realized that antislavery sentiment was gaining the majority throughout the U.S.