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BlueDuckBTC · 5d
The abolishment of slavery was an example of a democratic governing body helping those who were being exploited for profit.
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You mean the abolishment in the US? I'm pretty sure that Lincoln specifically ran on a platform of not interfering with slavery in the southern states. He opposed it in the new territories, which aligned with the interests of the industrialists that supported him. Those industrialists were doing their own exploitation for profit in the north.

In other cases of chattel slavery, I believe that there were reforms in monarchies and empires - or just shifting of power structures - that ended their slave trades.

[this is not my area of expertise... but I'm pretty sure that slavery end in the US was not because of workers rising against wealthy owners]
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BlueDuckBTC · 4d
No, the law was created by democratically elected people. The rebellions were by the enslaved and the many ordinary working people of the American Army. Kind of how the coal miners revolted enough and democratically elected people made laws to not only protect coal miners but also other workers in d...