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Why did many Americans think slavery would end by the late 1700s or early 1800s?

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answer: well it ended in 1863 when Abraham lincoln did the emasncipation proclamation setting the saves free

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People thought slavery would end because revolutionary idealism went against it and many leaders spoke about freeing their slaves. Others thought that economics would kill it because it was unprofitable. The invention of the cotton gin saved slavery.
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