No, American slaves were not freed by war. If anything, war is what kept them slaves longer than the other slaves who were peacefully freed worldwide by the British—except in the America where colonists killed in unlawful rebellion, then killed each other again over the argument.
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You got me curious why slavery was abolished in mainland Portugal in 1761. Before the industrial revolution, then. The transatlantic slave trade would carry on for another century, though.
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