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There were other powers through the 19th century that managed well without slavery in the rawest sense. Most of Europe worked to abolish slavery after the Congress of Vienna if I remember rightly. That didn't stop colonial abuses, it just changed the face of it. You didn't need slavery as an institution to remain and economic power, if you played your cards right. The United States however tended to be the exception due to its isolation though, so I doubt with or without slavery you would have seen too much difference in impact, save where the balance of power lay in the country, assuming the union lasted.


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