related_tweet: @rhianich1999 @newtkincaid @deckofcarter @ebethgott5 @outlawhistorian @realcandaceo @realdonaldtrump slavery in america was ended by americans. but then, for any country x, slavery in x was ended by xans, so that's not exactly an interesting fact about us. we were more-or-less the last country in the western hemisphere to do it and the only one that needed a major war to do it.