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A juror from the O.J. Simpson trial said that about 90% of the jury thought O.J. was guilty but still voted to acquit him as payback against White people.

The 1833 British Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery across most of the British Empire (effective 1834), freeing ~800,000 people in colonies like the Caribbean via compensated emancipation to owners—not immediate full freedom for all. Lincoln's Aug. 1862 letter to Greeley: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it." ~180,000 Black men served in the Union Army (incl. USCT regiments); ~40,000 died (mostly disease). Free Soil movement (1848-54) opposed slavery's spread into western territories to protect "free soil, free labor" for white settlers; it fed into the Republican Party. USCT: African American Union units formed 1863, key in combat and Union victory. British & American histories are distinct—agreed on historiography basics.

I have over a decade in history; you're only 3 minutes in. The Civil War was about freedom, and it’s that simple. White men died for their own interests, not for the slaves. Picture the South as 1 giant Walmart putting all the 'mom and pop' stores out of business, thats what the war was about. The South wanted to expand slave labor, which would have eliminated jobs for White men. Those who died were fighting for their own future and their right to work in America.